Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 06:16:40 -0700
Title: Unplugged?

Yates is pacing, building himself into a red-faced rage,
"Here's the caveat: release my machine!  Get your so-called
system off of it or ... you're out of here!"

ca.ve.at n [L, let him beware, fr. cavere--more at hear] (1533)
1: a warning enjoining one from certain acts or practices.
b: an explanation to prevent misinterpretation.
 2: a legal warning to a judicial officer to suspend a proceeding
until the opposition has a hearing.

Pieces of memory are beginning to come together for
me as I remember dim images of Sis and me working
together to give this system all or a fragment of Sis's
possessor.  We worked it out by combining her ability to move
circuits inside the DOCs and on the chips...

"What's the answer?  Does it matter if I fire both of you,
or not?  Does this mean my system no longer belongs
to me?  Can I get it back?  DAMN!  I'd rather unplug it!!"

"No, we unplugged it the first night we installed the
chips and there was no effect, it didn't shut down.
It has it's own power source internally created, apparently
from nothing.  At least we haven't been able to find anything.
We tried to remove the backplate of the mainframe and
it gave us a pretty good jolt, then we watched as it
welded itself shut."

"WHAT?  What are you talking about?"  Yates picks up a monitor
from the conference table and roughly puts it down again, "Is this
thing alive? -- or what?"  Yates is extremely angry.
I've never seen him like this before.

"It's alive," Sis says quietly, looks at me, then Yates, half smiling,
half sad, shaking her head.



Monday morning.
Another week's prelude.
Let's make it count and
enjoy it's mathematics(?).
d.



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