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From: Brian Angliss <ANGLISS@****.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Actually, it is.
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 01:22:48 -0400
>>>>>[How many have gone missing, Slick? I believe that in addition to the
three that Mike and the Mechanic have aquired, you will find that one was
"destroyed." Also, the inertial microprocessor you love so much has the
following errors*****Include error list*****. Now, these are errors for use
with CBRs, but I believe that you will find that if you fix them, you will get
a 1.0034% efficency improvement above what you have already. And the wardrones
are rather nice. Up with the better ones built today, but not the best. I'd
put a Dragoon combat CBR against one, and the Column Mark-4 recently defeated
one(a Dragoon, that is). Besides, you wouldn't want me to point out every
individual design flaw publicly, now would you?

I do not want to make enemies, sir. I just want you to realize that not even
your designs are perfect. Nor are mine. And the technology curve is forever
ahead of us both, even if we are at the cutting edge. That's why I recently
implanted one of your precious KDI Inertial processors(modified to take out
the signal cut-out, of course) into Collussus. He rather likes it as well, as
it improved his reaction and eliminated those troublesome twitch landings when
performing acrobatics. Thank you for it.

And I do wish to rephrase my previous statements. I know all the specs and
designs of the Kryton drone that were placed in the Fuchi computer. Whatever
was in Lister's head is obviously unknown to me, as I am not a mage. However,
I do know _most_ of deadheads, as I said, up to 7 months ago. If it has come
out since then, I may very well have no true knowledge of it, but the Morgan
Freeman? It's rather old. I use what I get, which was most everything the
world had to offer in the realm of deadheads and cybernetics.]<<<<<
-- Wizard(01:16:12/10-20-54)

>>>>>[Yes, I work with him... He's the only one who knows everything there
is
to know about my cybernetics. Over 400 million Mp of drawings and schematics,
1 billion Mp of specs and component listings, and the knowledge that lets him
work on me alone. And all stored in his head. He is brilliant, like an
Einstein in cybernetics with the most perfect memory I know that isn't a
computer. His mind is scary, and I can't even relate to it, but until he tells
someone else how to perform the upgrades, rewrite the code properly for the
upgrades, and keep me alive, he's all I have.]<<<<<
-- Collussus(01:21:28/10-20-54)

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