| From: | Mark Mark@******.demon.co.uk |
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| Subject: | [Nerps] FW: [Nerps] [Stuff] Robotic Walker Frame, Draft 2 [L |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:47:49 +0000 |
> Reposted per Gurth's request.
> STUFF
> XS-3 Series Exoskeleton Walker Frame
> Patrick E. Goodman <remo@***.net>
> --------
>
> Shoebomb's Nifty Gizmos, Inc. -- XS-3 Series Exoskeleton Walker Frame
>
> Additionally, many of those paralyzed due to injury are either too poor to
> afford the reconstructive cybersurgery to bypass spinal damage, or are
> magically active and unable to accept cybernetic or bionetic replacements or
> repairs. Some paralysis is caused not by spinal trauma, but by neurological
> disorders that cannot be cured with the present state of medical technology
> or magic.
>
> (>) Someone wanna tell me what this says in English?
> (>) Dixie Hick
(>) there are more than a few ways the body can go wrong the boffins
have yet to figure out a way of fixing even now.
(>) Medic on a shoestring
> (>) You expect me to buy that, chickie? How many street punks out there
> have spurs or a smartlink? Those aren't exactly cheap.
> (>) Dixie Hick
>
> (>) You're comparing a 2,500 smartgun link, or even an 11K retractable
> spur system, and their respective surgical costs, to a 60K-plus spinal
> bypass processor and _its_ surgical costs? And you can't take _me_
> seriously? Tell me something: How easy is it for that gutterpunk to go
> into the shadows and find a job that'll pay off the financing on his new
> chrome in a week or two? Now how easy is it going to be for a wage-slave to
> even find financing on something in the neighborhood of sixty times that
> cost (after you factor in hospitalization, surgery, and other associated
> costs)? It's not as easy or as cheap for most people as you want to believe
> it is.
> (>) Shoebomb
> If Shoe builds it, it will run
(>) Oh and the minor fact that poor wageslave has to pay double the
cost because he/she's going to a doctor with a proper degree
charging full rates and another for the insurance. Sure the punks
paying a markup because the clinic's illegal and the fixer wants cut
for finding it for him. But he also may have opted for second hand
chrome and skipped hospital before fully cured becaus he cannot foot
the bill. Alternatively he may haver been bankrolled by the folks
he now owes hid life to, probably organised crime.
(>) Sums and Figures
> The XS-3 doesn't give you much control over how it does it; all the actual
> movements are programmed into the computer's EPROMs. I've made the
> movements as fluid as I can, as real as I can, but it's not perfect. Yet.
> I'm hoping that I can get better handling out of the XS-4.
> (>) Shoebomb
> If Shoe builds it, it will run
[I would be wary of the reference to 'EPROMS's' ! they are fast
enough becomming 'old tech' now to EEPROMS. (If the acronyms are
meaningless don't worry!) one of the reasons FASA never would convert
Megapulses to Megabytes]
> The following table outlines the costs and pricing for the various models of
> the XS-3 exoskeleton. The prices shown are for human-sized units; prices
> for troll-sized or dwarf-sized units are slightly higher.
>
> Weight Availability Cost Street Index Legality
> XS-3p 10.0 4/14 days 11,500 1 Legal
> XS-3q 14.5 4/14 days 14,000 1 Legal
> XS-3n 15.5 4/14 days 15,400 1 Legal
[If memory serves those prices are down a lot, and look more
reasonable now]
> GAME EFFECTS
Overall looks prety ggod now, certainly benefitted from being paseed
through the list a few times. A few extra shadow comments and notes
(in []'s) inserted above.
Mark
