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Message no. 1
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Cyberdecks
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:09:36 +0100
dmccraw@*****.aix.calpoly.edu said on 18 Dec 95...

> I was working on a list of cyberdecks you can buy full out. A pre
> packaged deals, one by Fuchi and one by this and that and so on.

Can you post it here, or mail it to me, or do something similar once it's
finished?

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Message no. 2
From: Sight Unseen <toabo@****.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Cyberdecks
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:08:02 -0500
>And about themoney,well after years my decker bought a Fairlight...

Who buys decks retail? I thought a real decker would either build a
deck himself/herself (gotta be PC, even in 2057 <g>) or contract a kick-ass
specialist to do it for him/her.

Peace and Long Life,

Scott
Message no. 3
From: Charles Winston <mange@*.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cyberdecks
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:29:53 -0800
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Sight Unseen wrote:
> >And about themoney,well after years my decker bought a Fairlight...
>
> Who buys decks retail? I thought a real decker would either build a
> deck himself/herself (gotta be PC, even in 2057 <g>) or contract a kick-ass
> specialist to do it for him/her.
>

Who buys the deck, or builds it? I just go find someone with a really
"bad ass" deck and whack him on the head. (in such a way that he doesn't
know it was me.) Then all you need to do is make your own chips....

!Bung:
That guy in the corner with the hot excalibur and a really big bat.
Message no. 4
From: Dane Jensen <djensen@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: Cyberdecks
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 22:05:10 -0800
> Who buys the deck, or builds it? I just go find someone with a
really
> "bad ass" deck and whack him on the head. (in such a way that he doesn't
> know it was me.) Then all you need to do is make your own chips....
>
> !Bung:
> That guy in the corner with the hot excalibur and a really big bat.

What is the deck is cranial :)

Psyber
Message no. 5
From: Sight Unseen <toabo@****.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cyberdecks
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:32:13 -0500
>Who buys the deck, or builds it? I just go find someone with a really
>"bad ass" deck and whack him on the head. (in such a way that he doesn't
>know it was me.) Then all you need to do is make your own chips....
>
>!Bung:
>That guy in the corner with the hot excalibur and a really big bat.

You must make lots of friends in the decker community.
Message no. 6
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Cyberdecks
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:16:10 -0500
>>Who buys the deck, or builds it? I just go find someone with a really
>>"bad ass" deck and whack him on the head. (in such a way that he
doesn't
>>know it was me.) Then all you need to do is make your own chips....
>>
>>!Bung:
>>That guy in the corner with the hot excalibur and a really big bat.
>
> You must make lots of friends in the decker community.
>
I know that there's a big ass Ork with an assualt cannon just waiting for
him to try and steal his deck...:):):)

-Bull-the-how-did-we-get-onto-THIS-topic-decker-turned-GM
Message no. 7
From: Filur Olsen <blyten@*******.HUT.FI>
Subject: Re: Cyberdecks
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:02:01 +0200
>
>>Who buys the deck, or builds it? I just go find someone with a really
>>"bad ass" deck and whack him on the head. (in such a way that he
doesn't
>>know it was me.) Then all you need to do is make your own chips....
>>
>>!Bung:
>>That guy in the corner with the hot excalibur and a really big bat.
>
> You must make lots of friends in the decker community.
>

Kinda reminds me of a run where our techie-head got bold. He killed a
hired burglar for his top-of-the-line codebreaker thingy, when the burglar
would«t sell the thing. Our techie-head was not very smart, so he chopped
the burglar into pieces, stuffed him in a box, and dumped him about 500
meters away from where we lived. All this happened ofcourse while the rest
of the team was sleeping, so we couldn«t stop him.

After a day or so, the friends of the burglar, who was quite good, came by
too see what happened to his friend. They naturally wanted to talk to
the guy who had called the Johnson and had hired him. And who was that?
Our criminal mastermind the techie ofcourse.

In the end the guy who killed the burglar was cut in half by machine-gun fire.


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Message no. 8
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Cyberdecks
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:35:46 +0100
Toaster said on 20:41/31 Mar 97...

> okay, on a more relevant note, I have a question to ask of everyone.! It
> concerns VR2.0, which since i hear very little about it i assume most
> people dont know very much about it (and about decking in general) it
> concerns the ratings of bod/sensor/mask/evade in relation to the MPCP
> say the MPCP is 8, and i have a masking of 8. when i go into masking
> mode, increasing my masking to 1.5X, does the new rating of 12 break the
> max-persona-rating rule or is it allowable..? i believe it is allowable
> because it only represents increased (almost jury-rigged) allocated
> resources, but was looking for other opinions since the book didnt say it
> was allowable or wasn't allowable. anyway

Page 17 of VR2.0 says that no persona program's rating may exceed the
MPCP rating. Page 77 talks about increasing the rating by 50% in the
specific modes, but as you say it doesn't mention whether it may or may
not exceed the MPCP rating.
My idea is that it can, because the "may not exceed" rule is for the base
rating, and doesn't mention the increased rating either.

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