Lady Borgia has been sprung from the Zig and is beginning her reign of terror in the Rogue Isles! Her robot army will RULE THE WORLD! *cue melodramatic music*
Stepping back from the edge a bit now... what I'm running into is that I have some fun ideas for RP'ing a robotics mastermind. Her first two 'bots have distinct personalities; I've named them C-64 and TRS-80, respectively. When the third comes along, he's probably going to be called TI-86 (unless I come up with something more appropriate) -- obviously, he's the 'dumb' one of the group.
("Oh, for the love of -- TI-86, clear and reset! Stupid buffer overflows..."
"Well, that's what you GET for using a pocket calculator for his primary circuits."
"Oh, DO shut up.")
My problem is, I want the next tier to have names more appropriate for, well, more capable 'bots. The 'theme', obviously, is robot-like designations that just HAPPEN to be model numbers of computer systems. Heh. (Probably been done, but I'm having fun with it).
I'm thinking PDP/10 and ... what? I can't remember the numbers/names of any comparable mainframe systems from back in the day.
And then, of course, I'll need something EXTRA special for the third tier. I'm thinking XMP for that, but I'd be open to a better idea.
Thoughts? I know, I'm a geek, but this has kept me amused.![[Image: smile.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif)
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Stepping back from the edge a bit now... what I'm running into is that I have some fun ideas for RP'ing a robotics mastermind. Her first two 'bots have distinct personalities; I've named them C-64 and TRS-80, respectively. When the third comes along, he's probably going to be called TI-86 (unless I come up with something more appropriate) -- obviously, he's the 'dumb' one of the group.
("Oh, for the love of -- TI-86, clear and reset! Stupid buffer overflows..."
"Well, that's what you GET for using a pocket calculator for his primary circuits."
"Oh, DO shut up.")
My problem is, I want the next tier to have names more appropriate for, well, more capable 'bots. The 'theme', obviously, is robot-like designations that just HAPPEN to be model numbers of computer systems. Heh. (Probably been done, but I'm having fun with it).
I'm thinking PDP/10 and ... what? I can't remember the numbers/names of any comparable mainframe systems from back in the day.
And then, of course, I'll need something EXTRA special for the third tier. I'm thinking XMP for that, but I'd be open to a better idea.
Thoughts? I know, I'm a geek, but this has kept me amused.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs