[Glorthoron]

2. what is the wire running down Dodger arm?

Cable connecting his smartgunlink to a datajack?

[Mirikon]

2. what is the wire running down Dodger arm?

Cable connecting his smartgunlink to a datajack?

Yeah, remember in the old days you had to have induction pads in your hand and a cable running from the gun to a datajack in order to use a smartgun.

[Patrick Goodman]

Yeah, remember in the old days you had to have induction pads in your hand and a cable running from the gun to a datajack in order to use a smartgun.

You had to have one of the other. You didn't have to have both. Cables were more common for a long time, but even in the 50s a lot was done with induction pads.

Cables just looked cooler.

[hobgoblin]

And here i was thinking program carriers (or whatever they were called).

[Patrick Goodman]

He had them, but they weren't that far up his arm I don't think. I'm thinking they were in his hand.

[Frankie the Fomori]

So excited for this, opening up my 1st edition to read story about Ghost, Sally and dodger.

[hobgoblin]

He had them, but they weren't that far up his arm I don't think. I'm thinking they were in his hand.

My impression was that the more common installation was on the back of the hands (kinda like spurs). But they still operated via the datajack, and with that being in the temple or nearby one need wires run.

[Glorthoron]

He had them, but they weren't that far up his arm I don't think. I'm thinking they were in his hand.

My impression was that the more common installation was on the back of the hands (kinda like spurs). But they still operated via the datajack, and with that being in the temple or nearby one need wires run.

Yeah, I think that was how it was. 

[Critias]

The program carriers are on his left arm, and back in the SR1 image he does have some sort of cable-thing there, on his forearm.  Wish it showed his program carrier ports on the swanky new cover (since it shows that part of his handy very clearly, it would'a been nice to see 'em).  Ah well.  I've just got a soft spot for the old program carriers (when they got taken away was when I lost interest in decking, for the better part of 20 years). 

[CanRay]

I hope they included rules for Program Carriers...