[Coco] Old techies

[Mark McDougall]

steve wrote:

>>From a computing standpoint, yes. But Cell phones need constantly recharged 
> and they need a tower ever so many miles with a whole infrastructure in 
> place. Communicators seem to run a long time with no charge or battery 
> change and they could talk to the ship in space and people half way across 
> the planet. Tricorders are where the computing power was. :p

IIRC the communicators were mainly used in communication between "away 
teams" and the ship in orbit, so in that sense they were more akin to 
satellite phones (albeit a _lot_ smaller) than cell phones which require 
terrestrial towers. And communication with other parties "half way across 
the planet" would of course be relayed via the orbiting ship, in "sight" 
with both parties. You make a point with the power requirements though!

Regards,

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