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Message no. 1
From: Walker of Shadows <OABBrother@***.COM>
Subject: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:35:21 -0400
Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to it in
a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

Walker of Shadows
Message no. 2
From: Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:36:28 -0700
| Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to
it in
| a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

IIRC wetware refers to headware cyber.

-Caric


Word to the wise... Never anger a dragon, for you are crunchy, and would
be good with brie!!!

-Karl Teranssen av Drakkar
Message no. 3
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 22:48:16 +0100
|
|Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to it in
|a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

Never heard of it....
I know what WetWORK is, but not Wetware....
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Message no. 4
From: Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:56:03 -0800
At 14:36 5/20/97 -0700, Caric wrote:
>| Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to
it in
>| a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

>IIRC wetware refers to headware cyber.

Usually I've seen it referring to your actual brain tissue, and probably
by extension neural bioware. (An encephalon is headware, but a cerebral
booster is wetware.)

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Message no. 5
From: Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 15:35:16 -0700
| At 14:36 5/20/97 -0700, Caric wrote:
| >| Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references
to
| it in
| >| a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.
|
| >IIRC wetware refers to headware cyber.
|
| Usually I've seen it referring to your actual brain tissue, and probably
| by extension neural bioware. (An encephalon is headware, but a cerebral
| booster is wetware.)


Actually now that you mention it Max I think you are right they were
actually referring to a persons brain as his wetware. Obviously mine needs
to be upgraded. ;-)
Wonder if there is a flash upgrade for my years model?

-Caric


Word to the wise... Never anger a dragon, for you are crunchy, and would
be good with brie!!!

-Karl Teranssen av Drakkar
Message no. 6
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:35:41 EDT
On Tue, 20 May 1997 17:35:21 -0400 Walker of Shadows writes:
>Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to
it in
>a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

Slang for Bio-Ware.... (you know, on account of it's
generally-more-moist-than-cyber-ware state)... although it's has been
used in sci-fi fiction to refer to cyber-ware type implants too.

~Tim
Message no. 7
From: Duncan McNeill-Burton <Dreadnaut1@***.COM>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 22:45:48 -0400
In a message dated 97-05-20 18:37:35 EDT, you write:

<< |
|Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to it
in
|a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

Never heard of it....
I know what WetWORK is, but not Wetware....
-- >>

AFAIK your wetware is your brain.

Later-

Duncan
Message no. 8
From: Flo <florian.goll@******.UNI-WEIMAR.DE>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:35:16 +0200
> Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to it in
> a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

From my PoV Wetware is your _Meatbody_ it's used in a lot of dark
fiction/Cyberpunk Novels like from Gibson, Shirley etc.
So for all your Cybermaniacs think about Wetware as the Soft targets who
crunch under your steely grip.
ImhO Wetware includes the Brain and Bioware.

-Flo
Message no. 9
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:44:12 +0100
Walker of Shadows said on 17:35/20 May 97...

> Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to
> it in a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.

It probably means "bioware," and the author got the terms wrong. (Oh, how
nice it would be if everyone stuck to the standard (FASA) names for
things...)

BTW, what is this file, and where did you download it?

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Message no. 10
From: Kim Christiansen <kimc@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 11:05:34 +0100
Hey Gurth,
Actually Wetware was a term used in two books by an Author whose name
escapes me at the moment....darn.
Anyway, wetware is the "meat body", un-augmented. You see, this hapless
fellow created self aware robots that were "hardware".
Then the plot unfolds from thereThe first book was titled "wetware", but I
still can't rmember the authors name :(
(if you want a similir example in SR, check out the Nanite Bio-Arcolgy
creature on the
SR Archives(http://www.interware.it/shadowrun/) by my good friend Hard
Master... it's very interesting)

kim

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> From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
> Walker of Shadows said on 17:35/20 May 97...
>
> > Has anyone heard of something called Wetware? I had some references to
> > it in a shadowrun equipment list I got of of a FTP server somewhere.
>
> It probably means "bioware," and the author got the terms wrong. (Oh, how
> nice it would be if everyone stuck to the standard (FASA) names for
> things...)
>
Message no. 11
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: ----WetWare??----
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 23:14:57 +0100
In article <19970524181435.AAA8104@****.cyberspace.com>, Kim
Christiansen <kimc@**********.COM> rambled on endlessly about ----
WetWare??----
>Hey Gurth,
>Actually Wetware was a term used in two books by an Author whose name
>escapes me at the moment....darn.
>Anyway, wetware is the "meat body", un-augmented. You see, this hapless
>fellow created self aware robots that were "hardware".
>Then the plot unfolds from thereThe first book was titled "wetware", but I
>still can't rmember the authors name :(

I have a book on my shelf titled Wet Ware, and was written by Rudy
Rucker and is part of a set that includes Soft Ware. Though how relevant
these books are to the Shadowrun definition of Wetware is debateable.

Hope that helps :)


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