Computers and Networks in Prorolis-7
“The system is down. The system is also continuing.”
“The system is down. The system is also continuing.”
On PROROLIS-7, computers occupy a strange place in society. They are omnipresent, essential to everything that functions, and yet trusted by almost no one.
Most working computers are old, heavy, wired, and ugly (this is considered a virtue). They ,may boot slowly, whine audibly, and display institutional login screens in pale green, gray, or dead corporate blue. A typical terminal in a Prorolis facility will consist of a refurbished desktop tower, a CRT or early flat-panel monitor, A clunky keyboard with half the letters worn off. A yellowed sticky note reading something like: DO NOT TURN OFF is optional.
It will local database access, but no reliable external internet. When they do access outside networks, they do so with the dignity of an elderly horse crossing a frozen bridge: slowly, reluctantly, and with everyone watching in silence. It will however have a printer connection that works better than anything else.