THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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That would have been the reporter who bolted off prematurely when they
first saw the personnel record machines. Conn wondered if he still had a
job. A later edition corrected this, but was full of extravagant
accounts of what had been discovered. Merlin or no Merlin, Force Command
Duplicate was the biggest abandoned-property discovery since the Third
Force left the Trisystem.[Pg 64]

The camp they had set up on top of the mesa was used, that night, only
by Klem Zareff's guards. Everybody else was inside, eating cold rations
when hungry and, when they could keep awake no longer, bedding down on
piles of blankets or going up to the barracks rooms above.

The next day they found the relay station which rebroadcast signals from
the buried aerial?or wouldn't one say, sub-terrial??on top of the mesa.
As Conn had expected, it was on top of a high butte three and a half
miles to the south; it had been so skillfully camouflaged that none of
the outlaw bands who roamed the Badlands had found it. After that, Force