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Message no. 1
From: Erik Hultgren <EHULTGRE@******.BITNET>
Subject: Cybernetics
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 17:47:54 EST
OK, chummers! So that this little discussion about powering cybernetics can
be over and done with, I am posting three discussion lists that deal with the
subject. These are just the actual lists, not the listservers.

Cybcom@*****.gwu.edu : Cybernetics Discussion Group. Very highbrow stuff.
They cover one specific topic over two weeks or so. The latest one is
an actual text on cybernetics, availabla to everyone on the list.
The text is written by a professor at George Washington Univ ( also the
location of the list). Not for the meak.
Cyber-l@*** : CDC computer Discussion. Haven't seen much about this one
yet. Evidently, they don't get many postings.
VRTP@**** : Virtual Reality, teleprescence, and beyond. I think anybody
interested in cyberspace and the matrix should take a peek in here.

As to why the HLoD said 'Who Cares!', remember that the people who write the
games don't need to know how the stuff works. After all, have you ever asked
Gary Gygax why he did the magic system for D&D the way he did, or how it
works?? I'm sure I'll get for thwapped or flamed for this, but I don't care.

-Warlok
-Erik Hultgren
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cybernetics
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 17:10:22 -0600
On Mon, 15 Nov 1993, Erik Hultgren wrote:

> As to why the HLoD said 'Who Cares!', remember that the people who write the
> games don't need to know how the stuff works. After all, have you ever asked
> Gary Gygax why he did the magic system for D&D the way he did, or how it
> works?? I'm sure I'll get for thwapped or flamed for this, but I don't care.

We don't need to ask, we all know that Gygax was on drugs at the time.
Sheesh. Do you think we're stupid :-)


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Message no. 3
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@***.GWU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cybernetics
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 00:23:20 -0500
[message groups about cyberware power]

Thank God! THWAP me if you want to waste the time, but this discussion
was going nowhere and accellerating in that direction at an alarming rate!
My friendly neighborhood Shadowrun GM says, and I agree, that even though
he's curious it doesn't really matter. If it does matter, make it up for
yourself!

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Message no. 4
From: Bai Shen baishen@**********.com
Subject: Cybernetics
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:38:01 -0400
http://www.eurekalert.com/releases/ns-hfh060700.html

Bai Shen

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