cpcarrot
May 5 2004, 08:23 AM
How do you work out how much space a built in device takes up in a cyberlimb that isn't on the table... I'm talking about things like pocket secretaries, skillsoft jukeboxes and non headware memory... I can't seem to find how you work that stuff out...
RedmondLarry
May 5 2004, 08:41 AM
It's up to the game master to decide how large equipment is, for equipment that is not in the Equipment Capacity Table (M&M p. 36).
One ECU is 50 cubic cm, or about the size of a stick of butter in the USA.
I have a fairly large cell phone by today's standards, about the size of a stick of butter. Your GM can decide, any way he likes, how large other equipment things are. Any pocket secretary will need a display, so you might consider it to be about the size of a modern-day PDA.
SR3 p. 295 says an optical memory chip is 2 x 3 x 1 cm. At 6 cubic cm, it's a little larger than 1/10th of an ECU by itself.
A Clockwork Lime
May 5 2004, 02:33 PM
Pocket Secretaries are just cellphones on crack. It has the same Concealability (

as one but weighs half the weight (0.5kg vs. 1kg). It's like comparing the new cellphones coming out today to the ones from five years ago.