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- Annie rings the doorbell and waits. Nobody answers. She checks that
- she's at the right door – yes, this is grandpa Karl's
+ Annie arrives at a house with multiple ground-level entrances.
+ She rings one of the doorbells and waits. Nobody answers. She checks
+ that it is the right door – yes, this is grandpa Karl's
apartment. She rings again. A window on in?
- one of the adjacent houses opens and she hears Isabelle quietly
- calling her.
+ one of the adjacent houses opens and she hears Isabelle quietly calling
+ her:
Annie, we're over here.
She walks over.
Which door?
@@ -21,30 +22,149 @@
This place has been vacant forever, might
as well use it.
Annie slides her shoes off and leans her bag against the wall. Then,
- they go to the living room where cables and computer parts are all over
+ they go into the living room where cables and computer parts are all over
the floor. Lucas sits in front of the rack between two opened boxes.
- The rack's side panels had been removed, revealing the rails holding
- the various devices inside and their power cables. Lucas is pushing
- a circuit board into a half-assembled device that hangs out the front.
- Karl goes over to a stool next to the rack, carefully avoiding stepping
- on things, and sits down.
+ The rack's side panels had been removed, revealing the devices
+ mounted inside and the cables connecting them. Lucas is pushing a circuit
+ board into a half-assembled metal box that hangs out the front. Karl goes
+ over to a stool next to the rack, carefully avoiding stepping on things,
+ and sits down.
- Annie sits down next to Lucas and watches as he carefully inserts one
- board after the other. Karl is looking at the manual and tells him
- to set some tiny switches on the front of some of them.
- Karl says: Annie, can you hand me these four
- gray ribbon cables?
- She looks around, lots of different cables everywhere.
- The wide, flat ones to your left.
- He takes them and plugs them somewhere into the back of the rack.
+ Annie sits down next to Lucas and watches as he carefully
+ synonym for careful? inserts another
+ board. Karl is reading from a binder of documentation and tells him to
+ set some tiny switches on its front edge.
+ While grabbing the next board, Lucas says:
+ Annie, can you take these and prepare the DIP
+ switches?
+ He pushes the box over to her. It contains four circuit boards, all
+ identical.
+ Uhm, okay.
+ She takes one of the boards out and looks at it. It's full of
+ electronic components on both sides and one of the edges holds a tiny red
+ box with an even tinier row of switches on it.
+ Above is a bad description. Need naive description
+ of DIP switches from someone who doesn't know.
+ So what do I set them to?
+ Karl tells her a combination and she tries to push the switches up or
+ down as needed with her finger nails.
+ Lucas says Here, use this. and hands
+ her a pen.
+ Using it to flip the switches, she sets the combination Karl says, then
+ hands the board over to Lucas and grabs the next one.
- Isabelle grabs the terminal from a corner of the room and lifts it onto - the rack. Meanwhile, Annie and Lucas start collecting the cables and - loose parts from the floor. Karl plugs rack and terminal into power and - connects a cable between the terminal and one of the devices in the front - of the rack. + Karl takes the racks's power cable and plugs it in. Isabelle gets + the terminal from a corner of the room and lifts it onto the rack. + Meanwhile, Annie and Lucas start collecting the cables and loose parts + from the floor. Isabelle plugs the terminal into power and Karl connects + a cable between it and one of the devices in the front of the rack. + They all gather around and Karl powers it on. He follows the same + procedure that Annie and Isabelle performed in the library: Key switch + at the top of the rack to RST, + power up the hard drive, hold LOAD + and key switch to RUN. Then, he + pulls a floppy disk out of the documentation binder and inserts it into + the computer. He enters some commands, the drive clicks a few times, and + the terminal displays a menu.
+ ++[ SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS v3.15 ] +---------------------------- + +1. Quick Test +2. Run All Tests +3. CPU Test +4. Memory Test +5. FPU Test +6. DMA Test +7. Serial Test +8. FDD Test +9. HDD Test +10. MTD Test +11. Load Module... + +Choice: █ ++
+ Lucas asks:
+ Odds of this working first try?
+ Karl says: We will see...
+ He types a number and presses enter.
+
+Choice: 2 + +Initializing... +Loading CPU Test... + Registers: Pass Branching: Pass + ALU: Pass Long Words: Pass + All Instrct:Pass Stress Test:Pass +Result: PASSED +Loading Memory Test... + Memory map: + 00000000- +Result: FAIL +Loading FPU Test... + NC2K OpROM init + FP Arithmetic Test + SIMD Test + +Result: FAIL +
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