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The range

Five marks since 2018. Three of them are still sold, one is refurbished stock, and one is withdrawn and still serviced. Prices in credits, excluding duty, at the works.

Section 1 · Catalogue

Mk I · CS-1, revision B

The first deck we built rather than repaired.

Eight hundred and forty units, all of them assembled on the bench that had been fixing other people’s decks for seven years. Heavy, slow, and repairable with hand tools, which is why a few hundred are still in service. We keep parts for it because we said we would.

Plainly: Four megabytes is not enough for current warez. We will say so before you ask us to fit more; the Mk I memory bus cannot take an expansion board and no amount of goodwill changes that.

Part no.CS-1B-004

Released2018

Withdrawn2021

Memory4 MB / 4 max

Slots2

Jacks1

WarrantyOut of warranty

AvailabilityWithdrawn

PriceNot sold

Not sold. Serviced until 2031.

Plate 1.1 · Orders and stock through the desk, cybrscape.com/desk

Mk II · CS-2, revision C

The one that taught us to design for the bench.

First chassis laid out by someone who had spent a decade taking decks apart. Twelve fasteners, one size of driver, and the memory board reachable without pulling the interface stack. Every deck we have made since has followed that rule.

Plainly: Refurbished units are refurbished: the case will have marks. We replace cells, seals and the jack assembly as standard and we list the rest of the wear on the docket.

Part no.CS-2C-008

Released2020

Withdrawn2023

Memory8 MB / 12 max

Slots3

Jacks1

Warranty90 days, refurbished

AvailabilityRefurb only

Price1,180 cr

Refurbished, 90-day warranty. Stock varies weekly.

Plate 2.1 · Orders and stock through the desk, cybrscape.com/desk

Mk III · CS-3, revision C

Seven years old and still the deck we sell most of to people who work outdoors.

Sealed to a standard nothing else in the range meets, because the first hundred went to survey crews who told us exactly what they thought of the Mk II in rain. Slower than the Mk IV and it does not care.

Plainly: Sixteen megabytes will hold four working programs and no more. If your load is five, buy the Mk IV instead of an expansion board — the Mk III memory bus will take the board but the scheduler will not thank you for it.

Part no.CS-3C-016

Released2022

WithdrawnCurrent

Memory16 MB / 24 max

Slots4

Jacks1

Warranty24 months

AvailabilityIn stock

Price3,250 cr

16 MB fitted. Expansion to 24 MB, 1,150 cr.

Plate 3.1 · Orders and stock through the desk, cybrscape.com/desk

Mk IV · CS-4, revision D

The deck most of our customers should buy.

Four years and four chassis revisions in, the Mk IV is the deck we know best. Two jacks, six resident slots, and a memory bus that takes a 32 MB board without an argument. It is not the fastest thing on the market and we have never claimed it was.

Plainly: A 32 MB deck does not give you 32 MB of warez. Firmware, ICE reserve and scratch take roughly twelve of it before you load anything. The full budget is on the Mk IV page and we would rather you read it now than discover it in the field.

Full specification, revision history and plan view →

Part no.CS-4D-032

Released2025

WithdrawnCurrent

Memory32 MB / 64 max

Slots6

Jacks2

Warranty36 months

AvailabilityIn stock

Price6,900 cr

32 MB, 6,900 cr · 64 MB, 9,400 cr

Plate 4.1 · Orders and stock through the desk, cybrscape.com/desk

Mk V · CS-5, revision A

Ten months old. Built in batches of forty.

Ninety-six megabytes is the most memory anyone has put in a deck this size, and getting it there cost us weight, endurance and a great deal of sleep. We build forty at a time because that is how many memory stacks we can get graded and matched in a month.

Plainly: The Mk V is heavier than the Mk IV and runs half an hour shorter on a cell. Both are real regressions and both are in the table below. Revision A has a known warm-jack fault on the second port; see the revision notes.

Part no.CS-5A-064

Released2028

WithdrawnCurrent

Memory64 MB / 96 max

Slots8

Jacks2

Warranty36 months

AvailabilityAllocation

Price18,500 cr

64 MB, 18,500 cr · 96 MB, 24,200 cr

Plate 5.1 · Orders and stock through the desk, cybrscape.com/desk

Section 2 · Comparison

All five marks, side by side

Figures measured at the works on production hardware. Where a number got worse between marks it is printed here in the same size as the numbers that got better — see endurance and mass, Mk IV to Mk V.

Table 2.1 — Specification comparison, Mk I to Mk V
Specification	Mk I	Mk II	Mk III	Mk IV	Mk V
Part number	CS-1B-004	CS-2C-008	CS-3C-016	CS-4D-032	CS-5A-064
Released	2018	2020	2022	2025	2028
Memory fitted MB	4	8	16	32	64
Memory maximum MB	4	12	24	64	96
ICE reserve MB, fixed	1.0	1.5	2.0	4.0	6.0
Resident warez slots	2	3	4	6	8
Jacks	1	1	1	2	2
Link rate Mb/s sustained	24	48	96	180	340
Response latency ms, jack to net	41	33	22	14	9
Mass kg, with cell	3.4	2.9	2.4	2.2	2.6
Cell endurance hours nominal	2.5	3.5	5.0	7.0	6.5
Dimensions mm	318 × 226 × 62	312 × 220 × 58	304 × 214 × 52	298 × 208 × 48	302 × 212 × 51
Warranty	—	90 days, refurbished	24 months	36 months	36 months
Availability	Withdrawn	Refurb only	In stock	In stock	Allocation
Price credits, at the works	—	1,180	3,250	6,900	18,500

Fitted as standardExpansion headroomFigures read fitted / maximum, in MB

Fig. 2.2 — Memory fitted and expansion headroom by mark. The Mk I bus takes no board at all, which is why its two figures are the same.

Section 3 · Memory & accessories

Memory boards, cells, leads and cases

Memory does not get cheaper per megabyte as the board gets bigger. It gets dearer, because the stacks have to be graded and matched, and the yield on a matched 32 MB stack is not half the yield on a 16. That is why the table below looks the way it does, and no, we cannot do better on it.

Table 3.1 — Accessories and service-fit parts
Part no.	Description	Fits	Price	Availability
CS-AX-118	Memory board, 8 MB	Mk II, Mk III	1,150 cr	In stock
CS-AX-112	Memory board, 16 MB	Mk III, Mk IV	2,100 cr	In stock
CS-AX-116	Memory board, 32 MB	Mk IV, Mk V	4,600 cr	12 working days
CS-AX-120	Memory board, 32 MB, graded matched	Mk V only	7,400 cr	Allocation
CS-AX-204	Cell, 7 h nominal	Mk III, Mk IV, Mk V	240 cr	In stock
CS-AX-231	Jack lead, Type-4, 2 m	All marks	85 cr	In stock
CS-AX-236	Jack lead, Type-4, 5 m, armoured	All marks	165 cr	In stock
CS-AX-260	Field case, foam-cut to mark	Mk III, Mk IV, Mk V	310 cr	In stock
CS-AX-274	Net module, fibre	Mk IV, Mk V	690 cr	8 working days

Fitting a board

Free with any deck bought here, done before it ships. Fitted to a deck you already own: 40 cr, same day if you bring it in, and we will check the socket retention while it is open — the revision C retrofit is still free.

What we do not sell

Warez. Not a single program, not bundled, not recommended. We sell the machine and we service the machine, and keeping that line clean is the reason our service department can take in anybody’s deck without an argument about what is on it.

Section 4 · Ordering

How an order actually goes

Tell the desk your load — how many programs are resident at once, and the two largest. We will name a mark, and roughly a third of the time it is a cheaper one than the one you asked about.
We quote in credits, at the works, excluding duty, with the lead time from the table above and not from optimism.
Memory is fitted, the deck is run for four hours against the mark’s test card, and the signed card ships with it.
Thirty-six months of warranty from the date on that card. Transferable with the deck, because a deck that loses its warranty when it changes hands is worth less than one that does not, and that is your money, not ours.

Desk: cybrscape.com/desk · Service desk — 06:00 to 20:00, six days · Prices valid to end 2029