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Message no. 1
From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: cranial decks was Re: Magical Deckers
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:31:17 -0500
At 22-Okt-97 wrote Brett Borger:



>Well, 95% of the time my runners DON'T lug the LMG. the advantages
>to a C^2 are:
>1) You can pass customs, guards, etc.
>2) You don't have your multi-million nuyen equipment shot (you hope
>:)

>Basically it's a matter of subtlety....if you use LMG's, than I have
>no point in talking to you about subtlety.


Ok, and now for the disads:
damaged chips=surgery
upgrade=surgery
limited memory, options
inferior to a normal deck
to much essence lost for the benefit
The surgery gets real expensive if you have ware of some grade, did you
want to pay several mega only to replace some small part? I think not.
Subtle, yes. But in no way overly usefull.
put the deck in a cyberarm, an underarm will do just fine, and lets see
whats better.
You can stuff a real deck into an arm with nearly all options that you can
put into a standart deck.
If you take an underarm than you go with an essence lost of 0.65 for the arm
0.2 for the datajack and 0.1 for the DNI control thats 0.95 at worst.
And it doesn`t matter what kind of deck you put in there, same goes for a
cranial remote deck.

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Barbie
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Message no. 2
From: Spider Murphy <crickel@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: cranial decks was Re: Magical Deckers
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:40:13 -0500
> The surgery gets real expensive if you have ware of some grade, did you
> want to pay several mega only to replace some small part? I think not.
> Subtle, yes. But in no way overly usefull.

And can we say SOTA? "Gee, Bill, I rolled Cyberchips again! What bad
luck! You're gonna have to go get the o' head chopped open again if you
want to have all your computer parts stay the same rating." And then
that takes time to heal, by the time you're done healing, it's next
month, and guess what? :)

Spider Murphy
Message no. 3
From: Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: cranial decks was Re: Magical Deckers
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:50:33 EST
> Ok, and now for the disads:

<snip long list of known disads>

> think not. Subtle, yes. But in no way overly usefull. put the deck
> in a cyberarm, an underarm will do just fine, and lets see whats

Whoops. I forgot all about the cyberarm deck. My bad.
-=SwiftOne=-
Message no. 4
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: cranial decks was Re: Magical Deckers
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:06:36 -0400
In a message dated 97-10-22 09:07:33 EDT, barbie@**********.COM writes:

> If you take an underarm than you go with an essence lost of 0.65 for the
arm
> 0.2 for the datajack and 0.1 for the DNI control thats 0.95 at worst.
> And it doesn`t matter what kind of deck you put in there, same goes for a
> cranial remote deck.
>
>
OH BarbieEEEEEEE....hate to tell you this babe, but that ain't quite true.
Cranial decks need more connectivity than just a DNI. I however would like
to note that a "deck" (not a cranial one) counts as a "device", and
can be
done in the way you suggested.

-K
Message no. 5
From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: cranial decks was Re: Magical Deckers
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 03:30:11 -0500
At 22-Okt-97 wrote J. Keith Henry:

>>
>OH BarbieEEEEEEE....hate to tell you this babe, but that ain't quite true.
> Cranial decks need more connectivity than just a DNI. I however would like
>to note that a "deck" (not a cranial one) counts as a "device",
and can be
>done in the way you suggested.

Hmm.. Keith I was speaking of standart decks in a cyberarm as an
alternative to C^2 decks. And in the second part you say the same as I.
So I realy didn`t understand your meaning here.
Sorry

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Barbie
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Evil Overlord advice #50:

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that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and
Macintosh powerbooks.

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Amiga RC5 Team effort member.
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Message no. 6
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: cranial decks was Re: Magical Deckers
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:53:16 -0500
In a message dated 97-10-26 14:52:26 EST, barbie@**********.COM writes:

> >OH BarbieEEEEEEE....hate to tell you this babe, but that ain't quite true.
> > Cranial decks need more connectivity than just a DNI. I however would
> like
> >to note that a "deck" (not a cranial one) counts as a
"device", and can
be
> >done in the way you suggested.
>
> Hmm.. Keith I was speaking of standart decks in a cyberarm as an
> alternative to C^2 decks. And in the second part you say the same as I.
> So I realy didn`t understand your meaning here.
> Sorry
>
I think I understand it now (several days after the fact of course). A
"Cranial Deck" is something who's parts (multiple) are connected to the mind
in a more direct fashion. DNI allows for the control of a given piece of
implantware to be directly controlled by a person (which I had thought
cyberware was originally anyway). It's one of those "opinions may vary"
things I think.

-K

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