She settled her fingers on the keys, powered the deck up. She felt the almost-subliminal tingle in her head as the link between brain and deck was energized. The link wasn’t active yet—no data was flowing, either way—but she could tell, without having to look at the deck’s small display, that it was positively established. She punched in a command for the deck to run a self-diagnostic, saw the columns of data superimpose themselves over her visual field. Unlike when she was actually in the Matrix, she could still see the "macro" world around her, but, being jacked in, the diagnostic data seemed more real, more immediate than the "real" world.