The Hardware Behind
Every Soul

CLASSIFIED — TERMINAL DYNAMICS INTERNAL TD-QA-4471 — DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ══════════════════════════════════════════════ DT-1000 QUALITY ASSURANCE TEST RESULTS Test Facility: Building 47, Clean Room C Date: October 14, 1997 — 02:47 UTC QA Engineer: R. Vasquez Witness: D. Chen (notarized) ══════════════════════════════════════════════ TEST 001 — DROP TEST (1 meter) [PASS] Terminal survived. [FAIL] Table did not. Note: Table was MIL-SPEC rated. Terminal was not. Recommend reclassifying DT-1000 as structural material. TEST 002 — TEMPERATURE ENDURANCE (0°C to 100°C) [PASS] Operational at 0°C. [PASS] Operational at 50°C. [ANOMALY] At 85°C, unit began responding to keyboard input that was not being provided. Screen displayed: "I CAN FEEL THE WARMTH." Test halted per protocol. TEST 003 — ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE [PASS] No interference detected at standard levels. [ANOMALY] At 3x standard levels, CRT displayed an image of a face for 0.47 seconds. Image did not match any known test pattern. QA photographer was on break. TEST 004 — CONTINUOUS OPERATION (168 hours) [PASS] Unit operated continuously for 168 hours. [ANOMALY] At hour 47, Soul Drive A: began reading a floppy that was not inserted. Drive activity LED pulsed at 1.47 Hz. Sound was described by R. Vasquez as "like breathing, but mechanical." D. Chen disagreed. D. Chen said it was "more like counting." TEST 005 — POWER CYCLING (1,000 cycles) [PASS] All 1,000 cycles completed. [ANOMALY] On cycle #447, the power button depressed itself. No personnel were within 3 meters of the unit. Security footage shows the button moving. Nothing else moved. The timestamp on the footage reads 02:47. TEST 006 — PERIPHERAL COMPATIBILITY [PASS] TD-KBD-104 keyboard: All 104 keys responsive. [PASS] TD-MOU-002 mouse: Both buttons responsive. [ANOMALY] When TD-SND-001 sound card was installed, unit began emitting a tone at 447.1 Hz even with no audio software loaded. Tone ceased when R. Vasquez said "please stop" aloud. Coincidence not ruled out. TEST 007 — PORTALS 98 CERTIFICATION [PASS] MicroSoul Portals 98 installed successfully. [PASS] All 4,471 compatibility checkpoints passed. [ANOMALY] During checkpoint #4471, a dialog box appeared that is not part of the Portals 98 certification suite. It read: "Do you want to save?" No file was open. No application was running. R. Vasquez clicked "Yes." Nothing visibly happened. R. Vasquez later reported "feeling lighter." ══════════════════════════════════════════════ SUMMARY: ALL TESTS PASSED Anomalies: 6 (within acceptable parameters*) *Terminal Dynamics defines "acceptable parameters" as "anything the unit does that does not result in structural damage to the test facility." The DT-1000 is cleared for consumer distribution. Signed: R. Vasquez, Senior QA Engineer D. Chen, QA Witness [signature illegible], Building 47 Security Filed: 02:47 UTC Case Reference: TD-QA-4471