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Message no. 1
From: "Shawn P. Williams" <sw2z+@******.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Adillo Technologies
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 18:33:49 -0400
>>>>>[Greetings my Seattle cohorts! I have a small request. I get the
feeling that one of my young associates is into it WAY over her head
(...as if that was unusual for people in our line of work...), and I'm
hoping that someone(s) can give me a northwest perspective on the
matter. Here's the story:
My young friend (an alley crawler/decker who runs under the handle of
Check-mate) needed some information that was being held only in an
off-line storage vault in Renraaku's Seattle arcology. So, she went to
a virtual bar in the Seattle RTG called Aleutians (I had never heard of
the place myself, but then, I'm from Pittsburgh) and hooked up with this
samurai by the name of 'Sal Paradise.' The deal they that cut was
simple: he and his cronies would make the datasteal @ Renraku and in
return, she would 'aquire' a certain prototype cyberdeck from an outfit
in the 'Burgh called Adillo Technologies. Their respective Fixers would
then make the exchange. Simple enough, n'est pas?
This is where it gets sick. She and her chumskis make the run on
Adillo, and it turns out to be a real chamber of horrors (we're talking
stuff that would give H.P. Lovecraft the willies). I later did some
checking on Adillo myself. It's like the Addams Family gone high tech
(board members committing suicide, employees frequently going mad...
heck, just last year they gave the CEO spot to a guy that had supposedly
been dead for 13years). Anyway, their legit business is to refit
existing technology for 'high-performance applications.' To make a long
story short(er), when Check-mate gets this prototype deck, it turns out
to be a control unit for some sort of Venus lander (with a LIVING HUMAN
BRAIN inside).
Check-mate made the exchange (she really needed that datafile) and
forgot about the whole affair, but I can't help but worry a bit about
the big picture. So, here's the favor that I'm asking, could anyone
tell me what they know about a Seattle Samurai by the name of 'Sal
Paradise' or perhaps speculate on what kind of market there would be in
Seattle for this sort of equipment (i.e. who would want it/what would
they do with it/etc. etc.).
Thanks for the filespace/thanks for the read!]<<<<<
-- Gargoyle <18:32:13/06-14-54>
Message no. 2
From: "Shawn P. Williams" <sw2z+@******.CMU.EDU>
Subject: AdilloTechnologies
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 12:46:34 -0400
>>>>>[Greetings my Seattle cohorts! I have a small request. I get the
feeling that one of my young associates is into it WAY over her head
(...as if that was unusual for people in our line of work...), and I'm
hoping that someone(s) can give a Yinzer the northwest's perspective on the
matter. Here's the story:
My young friend (an alley crawler/decker who runs under the handle of
Check-mate) needed some information that was being held only in an
off-line storage vault in Renraaku's Seattle arcology. So, she went to
a virtual bar in the Seattle RTG called Aleutians (I had never heard of
the place myself, but then, I'm from Pittsburgh) and hooked up with this
samurai by the name of 'Sal Paradise.' The deal they that cut was
simple: he and his cronies would make the datasteal @ Renraku and in
return, she would 'aquire' a certain prototype cyberdeck from an outfit
in the 'Burgh called Adillo Technologies. Their respective Fixers would
then make the exchange. Simple enough, n'est pas?
This is where it gets sick. She and her chumskis make the run on
Adillo, and it turns out to be a real chamber of horrors (we're talking
stuff that would give H.P. Lovecraft the willies). I later did some
checking on Adillo myself. It's like the Addams Family gone high tech
(board members committing suicide, employees frequently going mad...
heck, just last year they gave the CEO spot to a guy that had supposedly
been dead for 13years). Anyway, their legit business is to refit
existing technology for 'high-performance applications.' To make a long
story short(er), when Check-mate gets this prototype deck, it turns out
to be a control unit for some sort of Venus lander (with a LIVING HUMAN
BRAIN inside).
Check-mate made the exchange (she really needed that datafile) and
forgot about the whole affair, but I can't help but worry a bit about
the big picture. So, here's the favor that I'm asking, could anyone
tell me what they know about a Seattle Samurai by the name of 'Sal
Paradise' or perhaps speculate on what kind of market there would be in
Seattle for this sort of equipment (i.e. who would want it/what would
they do with it/etc. etc.).
Thanks for the filespace/thanks for the read!]<<<<<
-- Gargoyle <12:32:13/06-15-54>

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