Re: Request for Traveller Tech

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 Adrian Hurt	writes

>> > Swap your hand comp rom pack out and put in a module for local street
>> > slang.  Then when the local street scum question whether you belong on
>> > their turf, you can respond to them eloquently with out resorting to
>> > violence.
>>
>> 	Uhmm... yes, but where do you find a street slang module?
>> Perhaps by dropping by the local major university's linguistics or
>> anthro dept...
>I somehow can't visualise this.

>Scum: Hey, dude, where the *@#! are you from?
>PC (looks at handcomp, presses a few keys, face lights up):
>      I's out of that there !#$@ just round the sqorner.
>Scum: That there's one real *&^% looking piece of gear. Hand over, now, $%&*!

You have it wrong.   You are supposed to use the Heads up display that the
origional poster was designing as adisplay device to be inobvious.  Options
are provided to the user as suggestions when someone speaks to him.  The
whole point is for this to be undetectable.