-- A roomful of British COLLOSSI Mk 3, still classified,¨ found, still running, apparently interconnected in some still­ classified and apparently forgotten way. Each COLLOSSI contained¨ nearly 3,000 vaccuum tubes, and the ventilation had failed, and so the¨ room was fainting hot. Some tubes obviously burnt out, (installed end­ out so the dull orange reduced-voltage glow was visible to their¨ operators). Rat shit and newspaper nests were lodged between chassis.¨ A London Times on a nearby desk was dated 1948, and on the now-cold¨ radiator next to it was chained a coffee mug. The original COLLOSSI got their input from huge endless-loop paper¨ tape readers nicknamed "bedsteads", but a half dozen of them were¨ pushed to one side, and in in their place was , apparently¨ wired in their place. Only one COLLOSSI still had it's teletypewriter connected, and on this¨ was the usual roll of low-grade wartime yellow teletype paper, with a¨ foot or so hanging in back. Unfortunately, the typewriter ribbon having long dried out, the last¨ few lines on the yellow roll paper were completely unreadable. "HOLY FUCK!" The teletypewriter howled and screeched as its carriage motor strained¨ to melt the congealed lubricant by sheer force and heat, and banged¨ out another unknown character onto the paper. It was not clear whether this was intentional, or if it wass merely¨ abandoned and left for dead after having produced no output for a¨ substantial amount of time; either the original operators grossly¨ underestimated the runtime, or if this output was was some sort of¨ failure mode.