Interplay Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks The Pip-Boy’s start-up screen showing 64k of RAM and 38,911 bytes free is a reference to the Commodore 64.
In the same way How much RAM does the pip boy have? The Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV was first revealed on June 3, 2015, in the Fallout 4 announcement trailer. Usually, three Pip-Boys will be taken from the stack, the settler will equip one, and you can take the remaining ones back to give them to other settlers. Transfer all Pip-Boys to the settler one at a time. To work around this, get all (new) Pip-Boys from the Pip-Boy crates and Vault steamer trunk in the entrance area. Usage of Pip-Boy was not exclusive to Vault-Tec however.
The Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide refers to « Pip » as an acronym (Personal Information Processor), though in-game models of the device use « Pip-Boy, » not « PIP-Boy, » as its capitalization. The Pip-Boy 3000 is a pre-War electronic Personal Information Processor (PIP) in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas manufactured by RobCo Industries, and acts as a database for the player character’s personal information and inventory, as well as generating the heads-up display (HUD) in each respective game.
