| From: | Tim Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Using the Matrix w/o "Decking"; My thoughts |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Jul 1997 22:41:01 EDT |
>William Monroe Ashe said on 14:06/30 Jun 97...
>
>A computer network like the Matrix would IMHO be set up for users who
>_don't_ have a cyberdeck, since it would likely be too much to ask to
>equip every wage slave with a legal cyberdeck. I just did some
>calculations (well, my program did it for me) and for an MPCP-1/1/0/0/1
>tortoise deck with 50 Mp active and 200 Mp storage memory, an I/O speed
>of 1, and a vidscreen I got a cost of 3,033Y including the 10% reduction
>for buying a deck off the shelf. Without the active memory (since these
>decks won't need to carry decker programs) the cost drops to 2,696Y.
>
>That's still a huge sum for someone like most of us here. Only people
>who'd make the Matrix their hobby, or need access to it for their
>profession, would be willing to spend that kind of money, I think.
Huh? 2.7K is only about $1,000 more than what the average person pays
for a decent computer in the US. (Also figure that the stuff used in
Deck's is probably a bit more "top 'o the line" than what would go into a
standard tortise - so you could probably shave off a few more yen with
"cheaper" memory, a slower cpu, etc.. the "pc speaker" equivalent of
an
ASIST set up?) Tack on 60 years of inflation and you'll probably have
it. Hell, for about $30 a month you'll be able to get internet access
from a standard cable TV provider, and given how Trid and telecom
service runs, I don't think it would be too unreasonable to provide
something on the order of "Web TV" (or "Matrix Trid") as part of the
package in SR.
(Also, Couldn't you also effectively drop the MPCP ratings to something
like all 0's?)
~Tim
