Dixie Flatline

Dixie Flatline, alias McCoy Pauly, is a central character from William Gibson's Neuromancer and taught Case everything he knows about hacking. McCoy got his cyber-jockey handle from his southern drawl and his ability to cheat death (i.e. flat lining) during particularly nasty system hacks. Pauly currently exists as a Rom Construct (brainwaves transplanted into a central computer) in Sensenet's database after selling them his mind for a cool million, making him theoretically dead, but not technically alive either, as he can not grow from his experiences and suffers bouts of amnesia