At 2 AM, with the shop lights off except for the blue glow of a 4:3 monitor, Leo booted from the disc.
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Leo smiled. Then he shut down his bench PC—an old ThinkPad running XP SP3, of course—and went home. At 2 AM, with the shop lights off
He exhaled.