From: nono@unizar.es   
      
   Kloudnyne dice...   
   > Knight37  wrote in message news:...   
   > > "SpaceGirl"  wrote in news:c6qii1$eq7jv$1   
   > > @ID-129131.news.uni-berlin.de:   
   > >   
   > > > Can anyone remind me of just how much data was being transfered in our   
   > > > protags head in Neuromancer?   
   > >   
   > > Are you maybe thinking of Johnny Mnemonic? I don't recall any data   
   > > storage in the head things like that in Neuromancer. To answer the   
   > > question for JM, here's a quote from the story:   
   > >   
   > >     	Ralfi was sitting at his usual table. Owing me a lot of money. I had   
   > > 	hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head on an idiot savant basis.   
   > > 	Information I had no conscious access to. Ralfi had left it there.   
   > > 	He hadn't, however, came back for it. Only Ralfi could retrieve the   
   > > 	data, with a code phrase of his own invention. I'm not cheap to   
   > > 	begin with, but my overtime on storage is astronomical. And Ralfi   
   > > 	had been very scarce.   
   > >   
   > > Knight37   
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   >   
   > The only place I know where an actual quantity of data was mentioned   
   > was in the Johnny Mnemonic movie. While it's been a while since I saw   
   > it last (it's not that great a movie), the amount stored was 80GB,   
   > while his capacity was 20GB, increased to 40GB through use of a   
   > disk-doubler style utility (or was it 80MB stored? I forget). I never   
   > did understand how he was able to store more than his maximum capacity   
   > in the first place, but if I could get my HD to do it I'd be a very   
   > happy womble.   
      
   I just saw JM yesterday :) The quantities involved were:   
      
   80GB raw capacity, 160GB with the doubler and 320GB stored. At least in   
   the Spanish dub!   
      
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