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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: I don't know Jack...
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 12:15:59 +0100
Jett said on 19:35/30 May 98,...

> Is Shadowland accessable with a tortoise deck? My decking knowledge is
> pretty low, but I'm working on a short story that requires a character
> with no datajack to get into Shadowland (the character, FWIW, is heavily
> cybered: wired flexes, cybereyes, headcomm, all the bells and whistles).
> IS this possible?

I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. A tortoise _is_ a
cyberdeck, even though it's a very slow one. I guess a modern-
day comprison would be accessing the internet with a 300 baud
modem instead of at 57,600 bps. Sure, you can do the things you
want but they take ages to get done.

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