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![]() ![]() Nancy spent the night tossing and turning but finally got some good sleep. When she got up, she checked in on e-mail and called Spike to coordinate schedules. They'd meet around Noon at MicroLabs to plan for the meeting with Talisent. Spike had already talked to Roger. Breakfast was on the top of Roger's list. He'd video call to MicroLabs from his place at about 1:00 PM. Nancy used the morning to get in a workout at the gym. When she got to the office, Nancy noticed Spike's CPU hard at work. She piped him a message to say hello and when he came up on the monitor, she asked what he was working on. Spike was ready to explain. He had been digging up as much historical information as he could about the Xerox PARC facility. He was focusing on the research which led Xerox to their Ethernet technology patents. Projects, people, and industry relationships going back 20 to 25 years. Spike had e-mail contacted a few people who had been there in those early days of fundamental R&D. A number of questions surrounded a man named Eric Barker.
Spike and Roger came up with another idea, too. They wanted to try tracing the chat session to find Talisent's location. Finding her gateway's site would give them another chance to see what was ahead for Spike. Talisent would be expecting Spike to cover his location but she might not anticipate being traced backward herself. Spike would keep the chat going while Roger worked on the communication chain to find her site. Preparations. Nancy went to the library to find the trail of Eric Barker. Spike had to get his chat session locations and indirect routing set-up for the meeting. Roger got on the phone with a friend at the telephone company. He would need help if Talisent tried concealing her communications path. With six hours to go before the meeting, there wasn't much time.
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