computer

Computers are essentially Mental Gadgets possessing APs of INT, WILL, and MIND. Artificially intelligent computers may possess APs of INFL, AURA, and SPIRIT as well.

Automated systems may have a limited ability to use various Skills and Advantages, such as Detective or Scholar. Unless a computer is in control of some physical system (such as a robot), it will be unable to perform Skills which require any physical manipulations of an object. For example, a computer could not build a Gadget by itself simply by having the Gadgetry Skill.

A computer may use a Skill as its own APs of the Skill, or it may be used to enhance the Skill use of a Character who also has the Skill. In this case, reduce the Opposiign and Resistance Values of teh Action by the computer's number of APs of the Skill, to a minimum of zero APs.

— page 120 of the White Book

    Three examples of store-bought computer Gadgets are available to Characters under the Standard Equipment Rule:

• Budget Home Computer
• Advanced Home Computer
  (which might also be a Laptop or a Tablet)
• Off-Brand Cheap Smartphone

  Computers almost always are written up with high APs of the Recall Power. According to our Restricted Powers List, the Recall power can only exist up to a 5 if the Player does not take their own notes during the game, or 12 if the Player does have notes they could try to search through.   One possibility: perhaps instead of Recall, we rewrite computers to just have an EV boost Attribute: a number which adds to the Computer Science roll for the second table of an Action Check. As described on page 114 of the White Book, an EV has a Base Cost of 5 and a Factor Cost of 1.   Side note: On page 112 / Gadget-making tutorial page ##BLANK## are rules for Gadget having an Attribute that can used to substitute for the user's same Attribute in all situations. These are italicized Attributes. Power armor, for example, often has an italicized Strength Attribute because it can be used to lift object and throw things and as the EV in a melee attack or a Grapple.
And this adds +2 to the Factor Cost.   What we might want instead would borrow heavily Sébastien's "Enhance Power":

Enhance is a Power used by Gadgets and Artefacts to amplify a specific capacity of the operator.   The APs of Enhance are added to the operator’s relevant score using linear addition. So, for instance, 7+4 will be 11. Not 8 as with the usual AP addition.

  Unfortunately that house rule adds a LOT of math crunching to the gadget creation part of our story. And if we keep his very reasonable restriction "Enhance" generally only adds 1 AP to users whose attribute is below a certain cap, we again find it meaningless to upgrade a computer past "Budget" level.