| From: | L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Golden opportunities - or not. |
| Date: | Sat, 24 May 1997 20:57:22 EDT |
<Victor-Fisher@******.COM> writes:
<snippy-snippy>
>>Maybe you could buy some cyberterminals (the legal version of the
>>cyberdeck), get them rigged up for shadows when you get back and sell
off
>>the decks on the street. Might even make some money that way. You could
>>buy a couple of Fairlight-level terminals and a couple of Fuchi-7
>>equivalents with that kind of money...
>
>
> Transys Neuronet just released their new midrange cyberdeck , The
>Eclipse, designed to knock the Fuchi-6 out of the market. It retails for
[...]
> All cyberdecks,unless otherwise noted, are a HIGHLY restricted item
The question, however, is not how legal are cyber_decks_, rather it was,
how legal are cyber_terminals_. Cyberterminals are not decks, they do not
have either Masking or Evasion. Corp deckers will have Evasion, for
cybercombat, but civvy users have neither. That's what separates Decks
from terminals (remember the beginning of VR2.0?)
>in Britain [it's almost impossible to get anything better than a
>Allegiance Alpha without a permit from the Lord Protectorate's. On the
>black market, cyberdecks retail for (14 + 2D6) x 100 percent list price
>of the cyberdeck; and then the runner STILL has to smuggle theitem out
>of the U.K. anyway. [It's the old trick of getting people to buy
>domestic, over foreign imports, like in Japan].
Owch! Still, what about cyberterminals? I'd think that Brit terminals
should be fairly legal, and even if you had to get a license for it, they
have high-level fake ID's to run a background check against.
> But if you could get your hands on a couple of decks like the
>Eclipse, and get them out of the country, you could make a killing
>selling them.
That's the idea:) But, as I said, you don't want decks, 'cause decks are
illegal by their very nature. Terminals, OTOH, should be legal, fairly
legal anyway. If you can legitimately get your hands on a bunch of
cyberdecks and a license to sell them in the States, why go that route.
Heck, sell them at a discount when you get back, 13.1 mil (after a 10%
discount) is still a heck of a chunk:)
> Have a happy.
:) <-a happy :):)
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