British people have chips with everything. Platinum chips, water chips, clothing chips. Or as Edwin Starr sang,, LORE, what is it good for ,,,, absolutely nothing ,, good god y'all
The idea was for the world of Fallout to not have ICs. To be stuck in the Vaccum Tube age.
But by Fallout 2 Josh Sawyer already thought that IC's existed in the world of Fallout, because if robots used vacuum tubes, then the Pulse Grenades wouldn't really damage them, but Fallout 1 already has Pulse Grenades and they are only effective against robots.