Editing The Machine (section)

===What?===
>The data storage devices, however, are giving me a headache. I'm thinking some kind of PDA deal with cameras and various analyzing soft- and hardware, but I don't really want it to be a tricorderish thing.

.....NOTEBOOK AND PENCIL. WANT A PICTURE OF SOMETHING? DRAW IT. NEED A MAP? DRAW IT. NEED TO RECORD SOMETHING? WRITE IT DOWN. LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR SOMEONE? WRITE A NOTE AND RIP IT OUT. 

Never runs out of batteries, is immune to EMP, wont short out in water, can still work even with multiple bullet holes in it, can be used as kindling in a fire, the list goes on. 

i swear to the fucking gods that everyone COMPLETELY ignores the KISS rule. KEEP. IT. SIMPLE. STUPID.

(And Then)

The problem with this is that the only one who would ever want to record parts of the machine will a) want to analyze it, or b) want to sell the information to someone. This is why drawings are quite ineffectual. No matter how good you are at drawing, it will be very difficult to properly draw every part of a mechanism nobody even understands. Not to mention that the Delvers might miss an important part that would be caught upon later inspecting a video tape. I think some kind of recording device is pretty much a must.