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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject: Some Basic Questions
Date: Sat Feb 2 12:45:01 2002
I have a Shadowrun® Character who has a cyberarm with
SONY™ Chipman music Playback unit, Pocket Secretary,
Ameritech™ cellphone, pen, wrist computer (100Mp) all
with DNI. I want all this to be linked internally
through his nervous system to his brain so he can
control these options by thought and not have to have
any vulnerable and awkward wiring anging about
connecting his cyberarm to datajacks in his head.

Any ideas, rules-wise, how this can be done? Please
let me know.

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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jonathan)
Subject: Some Basic Questions
Date: Sat Feb 2 13:10:00 2002
> Any ideas, rules-wise, how this can be done? Please
> let me know.
>

Well I'm pretty sure there's some cranial cyberware that could allow what
you want. Ear cyberware for the phone, eye ware for the more visual aspects.
Brain ware for linking it to the nervous system.

Have a glance through Man and Machine, though I think the main SR3 rulebook
might have some of the more common solutions, the supplement will most
likely have more precise ware for your needs.
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Chris Shaffer)
Subject: Some Basic Questions
Date: Sat Feb 2 15:15:01 2002
>I have a Shadowrun® Character who has a cyberarm with
>SONY™ Chipman music Playback unit, Pocket Secretary,
>Ameritech™ cellphone, pen, wrist computer (100Mp) all
>with DNI. I want all this to be linked internally
>through his nervous system to his brain so he can
>control these options by thought and not have to have
>any vulnerable and awkward wiring anging about
>connecting his cyberarm to datajacks in his head.

A pocket secretary includes a cell phone and a 100Mp computer, so the
Ameritech cellphone and the wrist computer are redundant. Also, the
digital camera that is included in the pocket secretary is useless.

You'll need a transducer which allows use of a cellphone or radio without
speech.

To make use of the pocket secretary, you'll need a display link to view
data, or an image link to view data and pictures.

What do you mean when you say you have a "pen" in your cyberarm? Are you
talking about something used to write on paper, or what? I'm not sure why
anyone would want to link a ballpoint pen to their brain via DNI :)

At any rate, if you want to link all these things together and use them
mentally, you'll have to get a router.

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"Once the snake understands that you will die rather than
let it control you, you have mastered it." -- Julian Draven
Chris Shaffer chris@*****.net
http://www.uic.edu/~shaffer/
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jonathan)
Subject: Some Basic Questions
Date: Sat Feb 2 16:05:01 2002
> What do you mean when you say you have a "pen" in your cyberarm? Are you
> talking about something used to write on paper, or what? I'm not sure why
> anyone would want to link a ballpoint pen to their brain via DNI :)
>

I think the pen would be located in a cyber hand most likely as a finger
modification. While I can't see the point either of having a pen (does
anyone sign anything in 2060 on?) one can never tell when you need something
mightier than a sword... ;)

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