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Message no. 1
From: peter.andersson42@*****.com (Peter Andersson)
Subject: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:32:37 +0100
The book gives it the price ports x MP x 20¥

MP= total MP of all chips or the highest MP being able to be used on the
Jukebox?

/Peter
Message no. 2
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:26:43 +0100
According to Peter Andersson, on 28-1-07 19:32 the word on the street was...

> The book gives it the price ports x MP x 20¥
>
> MP= total MP of all chips or the highest MP being able to be used on the
> Jukebox?

Either that, or the total MP of all the chips in it. In either case I
find it very odd, because why would a skillsoft jukebox need to work
with the chips' contents? I picture it as nothing more than a little
device that simply routes the desired skillsoft's signals to the user --
like a router for a computer network.

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GC3.12: GAT/! d- s:- !a>? C++(---) UB+ P(+) L++ E W++(--) N o? K w-- O
M+ PS+ PE@ Y PGP- t- 5++ X(+) R+++$ tv+(++) b++@ DI- D G+ e h! !r y?
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Message no. 3
From: derek@***************.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:27:30 -0600
> Either that, or the total MP of all the chips in it. In either case I
> find it very odd, because why would a skillsoft jukebox need to work
> with the chips' contents? I picture it as nothing more than a little
> device that simply routes the desired skillsoft's signals to the user --
> like a router for a computer network.

I would say shift that logic to it being more like an IDE controller, the
size restriction being similar to that of older hard drive controllers, they
didn't support drives over a certain size, they just saw it as whatever size
their max capacity was...
Message no. 4
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:48:31 +0100
According to Derek Hyde, on 29-1-07 12:27 the word on the street was...

> I would say shift that logic to it being more like an IDE controller, the
> size restriction being similar to that of older hard drive controllers, they
> didn't support drives over a certain size, they just saw it as whatever size
> their max capacity was...

True, that's a possibility, but I'd kind of think that by the late
2050s, designers would have learned from those 1980s lack-of-foresight
problems that plagued computers before the Crash of '29 ... :)

--
Gurth@******.nl - Stone Age: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Give me a time when MTV Europe was beamed into our homes
-- Niall, Ball*istic
-> Former NAGEE Editor & ShadowRN GridSec * Triangle Virtuoso <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Site: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.12: GAT/! d- s:- !a>? C++(---) UB+ P(+) L++ E W++(--) N o? K w-- O
M+ PS+ PE@ Y PGP- t- 5++ X(+) R+++$ tv+(++) b++@ DI- D G+ e h! !r y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998
Message no. 5
From: ClassifiedTSBBR@*****.net.nz (Classified TS/BBR)
Subject: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:29:08 +1300
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
To: "Shadowrun Discussion" <shadowrn@*****.dumpshock.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question


> According to Derek Hyde, on 29-1-07 12:27 the word on the street was...
>
>> I would say shift that logic to it being more like an IDE controller, the
>> size restriction being similar to that of older hard drive controllers,
>> they
>> didn't support drives over a certain size, they just saw it as whatever
>> size
>> their max capacity was...
>
> True, that's a possibility, but I'd kind of think that by the late 2050s,
> designers would have learned from those 1980s lack-of-foresight problems
> that plagued computers before the Crash of '29 ... :)
>

yeah, but would the author of the _book_ have done so? ;-P
Message no. 6
From: derek@***************.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: [SR3] Skillsoft Jukebox question
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:13:53 -0600
> True, that's a possibility, but I'd kind of think that by the late
> 2050s, designers would have learned from those 1980s lack-of-foresight
> problems that plagued computers before the Crash of '29 ... :)
>
Some of those capacity limitations still exist today in ide controllers you
find in the external hard disk enclosures....there are some that can't
handle more than a 250GB drive, some 500GB, and I've yet to find one that
can take one of the 750GB drives....(I had to flash my SATA2 RAID controller
to make it handle a 750GB properly even)

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