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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 
+