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Message no. 1
From: "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM>
Subject: Re: (New) & Improved Datajack!
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:29:45 -0400
>
|In ShadowTech (I think) there is a reference (and stats) for a Datajack
LEVEL 4. Can someone please tell me what the advantages are of this jack
>over the one listed in SRII?

Shadowtech expands on the standard datajack as listed in the SRII Ed.
book. They range from Levels 1 thru 4, and offer varying Data Flow Rates
[like baud on a modem]. People who would only use a datajack for simple
datamanagement and just minor entertainment purposes like simsense, it
would make sense to only have a Level one installed, a cheaper price,
and only an Essence loss of .1 High rolling deckers, who love to crunch
massive amounts of data, or people who like their Dir-X simsense as full
band as possible would get the Level 4, a little more expensive, with an
Essence loss of .25. [remember, in any data transfer system, the overall
speed of transfer of info is only as fast as the slowest link].

Victor
Message no. 2
From: The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: (New) & Improved Datajack!
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:48:27 +0100
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Fisher, Victor wrote:

> |In ShadowTech (I think) there is a reference (and stats) for a Datajack
> LEVEL 4. Can someone please tell me what the advantages are of this jack
> >over the one listed in SRII?
>
> Shadowtech expands on the standard datajack as listed in the SRII Ed.
> book. They range from Levels 1 thru 4, and offer varying Data Flow Rates
> [like baud on a modem]. People who would only use a datajack for simple

Remember though that most people would also need an SPU (I/O). The basic
datajack ala SRII comes with an integral Spu (I/O) rating 0.

The Digital Mage aka Grant Erswell - mn3rge@****.ac.uk
"Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it"
-Rush, Losing It

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