On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jerry Friedman wrote: > > some *never* will i think (neuromancer anyone?). > > I'll take some, but much as I like that book, I thought it felt dated > within a few years. All those people wearing black, the Asiophilia, > the references to '70s music--by 1990 I felt like it was trapped in > the '80s. This is something my wife and I giggle about when we pull out the old Cyberpunk 2020 RPG books -- remember back when Japan was the economic powerhouse that was going to take us all over? Positively retro. pe -- <TomF> hardware is what we call a collective noun, like semen.