Rapture Electronics

* See also Technologies
* See also Bio-Electronics
* See also Era_Electronics
* See also RT%26T
 Rapture was a Place of more Rapid Adoption of New/More-advanced Technologies.
 It was a Place which also would be Built Consistently with everything 'Up To Date'. 
--- --- --- --- ---
New Electronic Components called Xisters :
* Had been developed from technologies taken from 'The Surface' ( originated there in 1949 ). I wont go the simpleton BS story route and have it provided 'Wave of the Hand'. It would come to Rapture when invented/developed on the surface world. but likely be adopted faster than it was up there.
* Production was developed and setup in Rapture ( Xenon Xister Company ) as a more reliable substitution/alternative for the electronic tube components (for certain uses). Xisters (Transistors - the new solid state semi-conductors) tended to be expensive, but had sufficient utility to have their production developments accelerated. Costs came down as production increased. McClendon was fundamental in improving the processes.
* Some NEW equipment in Rapture was completely Xisterized - including 'The Thinker' computational machine ( Sorry Vacuum Tubes just don't work for THAT ).
* Manufacturing/Repair for Tubes continues as replacements on existing tube-based equipment ( lots of consumer items in Rapture ).
* The more sophisticated 'smart' devices use Xistsers exclusively ( and take much further with Bio-Electronics being the real Revolution - but that potential being 'snuffed-out' by Fontaine's 'war' on Ryan's Rapture ).
* In the MMORPGP, Player Training classes to develop Xister skills are given by the New Rapture City Training Department.
* A experimental Xister producing facility was created in Minerva's Den to work on specialized computing related Xister use.
--- --- ---
New Rapture NEEDS Gold :
Not to trade for critical stuff from the Surface ( Ryan actually still has some - quite a bit actually - money 'up there' ... ) but for new electronics mechanisms and repairs.   Particularly for the Bio-Electronics which have quite small components and uses gold conductors ( Very small gold wires - a very well understood technology, for this still pre-IC technological era ).
Jewelry and Gold teeth are typical sources for Gold.
--- --- ---
 That "Radar Range" Ad Seen in BaS Preview :
Microwave Oven cooking - actually existed in the late 1950s, and were advertised on TV ( Ronald Reagan made such an Ad ).  With Rapture technological advantages, it (perhaps) could have been a more widespread consumer item much sooner ( even so, it is being shown as 'a big thing' as late as 1958  -- Possibly a sign of it being consumer-ized in a much bigger way ).
Using it as a gun ? Fanciful idea by DLC writers who are ignorant of what is actually involved.
--- --- ---
You Didn't Have A Portable Calculator (other than maybe a slide rule) :
You had something more like this ... SO you were happy to have ANY advancement in Computing. ( For those who never saw one, THIS "Adding Machine" is ALL Mechanical inside, and were in use still for a long time as 'computers' were huge things which only governments and large companies could afford. )
--- --- ---
--- --- --- --- ---
.
.