Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!amdahl!ames!mailrus!umix!rutgers!sunybcs!ugcherk From: ugcherk@sunybcs.uucp (Kevin Cherkauer) Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Subject: Cyberpunk and Speed Message-ID: <8749@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 88 21:57:07 GMT References: <5996@eecae.UUCP> <808@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Reply-To: ugcherk@joey.UUCP (Kevin Cherkauer) Distribution: na Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 19 In article <808@ut-emx.UUCP> legare@ut-emx.UUCP (BoB teCh) writes: >tell me, do you remember when 300 baud was IT? the fastest? ok.. then 1200? >2400? nowdays they got 9600 for personal use and big companies use 196000 or so. >fastfastfast. if it don't run fast enough MAKE it go faster. the power's in >YOUR hands, cowboy. more memory... faster chips... faster, bigger drives... >and more and more... gotta keep up with the info flow... the scroll's moving >on us, gotta keep up. gofastgofastgofast. maybe you catch up to it... then it >gets faster. moremoremore.. Which is why the music of cyberpunk just has to be SPEED METAL !!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm listening to Slayer's "Reign in Blood" right now! If you want to listen to music that parallels cyberpunk, i.e. SPEED, this "album" (10 songs, 28 min. 26 sec. or something like that total) for you. -- ....sunybcs!ugcherk -- Kevin Cherkauer -- (This space for rent) -- Romeo, Romeo! / Wherefore-art-thou-Romeo! Avast! Fair Juliet swooneth! / As the winter clouds doth trundle o'er the even sky, / and a cock croweth but not, / betwixt and betweath, so ith the fool / e'er the sanctuary of my demise.