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"Let me guess, I have to keep you a secret. Is that it? Well, you don't have to worry about that. I'm not taking the chance of telling anyone. I might find out this was just a dream and that I need six months in the Silicon Valley Silly Farm to wake up." "Nancy you'll be very glad you've taken me in and helped me out. I'll do anything I can to help you with your systems here as I long as it doesn't threaten to expose me to your staff or colleagues." "I guess I don't have to worry about things being boring around here anymore. Shall we get started on a configuration for you?" With that Spike and Nancy set to work pulling together Spike's new system. She decided to let Spike use the Silicon Graphics POWER Onyx computer that she had been beta testing for SGI. It already had 512 MB of memory and she added 8 GB of disk storage. The system's powerful 90 MHz MIPS R8000 processor dedicated to Spike's needs was practically a whole new world for him. Nancy had been unable to allocate the system to anyone at MicroLabs because she knew she would be accused of playing favorites by everybody else. The hardest part of the setup was disguising the system so that Nancy's staff didn't recognize the hot new computer was in use. Some clever alias definitions on Nancy's part accomplished the task. Over the weeks that followed Spike and Nancy mostly just got to know each other. Her friends doubted her explanations of a big new project at MicroLabs and thought she had found herself a new boyfriend. But time passed and Nancy gradually returned to her normal lifestyle. Occasional dates, South of Market Area (SOMA) San Francisco night spots, and three days a week at the gym.
It had been three months since Spike introduced himself when Nancy received a call from her long time friend, Tom Barnett of the San Francisco Chronicle. Tom had gone to Stanford with Nancy's dad and the two had stayed in touch. But Tom Barnett was not calling in a social mood that Monday morning.
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