Part 115 (1/2)
”Yeah, let me at it What the hell did you want to knoay?”
”I iine you have a file on dGraph, somewhere inside the over 400,000,000 active filesto worry about you That's classified”
”It's all in the company you keep,” Scott chided ”Just ask it for dGraph” Tyrone selected an Inquiry Data Base and asked the computer for what it knew about dGraph In a few seconds, a sub-ap- peared several options:
1 Company History 2 Financial Records 3 Products and Services 4 Manageal 8 Comments
”Not bad!” chided Scott ”Got that on everyone?”
Tyrone glared at Scott ”You shouldn't even know this exists
Hey, do me a favor, will ya? When I have to lie later, at least I want to be able to say you weren't staring over ?”
”No problem,” Scott said as he pounced on the couch in front of the desk He knocked a few days of mail onto the floor to make room ”OK, who founded the company?”
”Founded 1984, Pierre Troubleaux and Max Jones”
”That's it!” exclaimed Scott ”Max Jones Where?”
”Cupertino, California”
”What date did they go public?” Scott asked quickly
”Ah, August 6, 1987 Anything else ibed
”Can you tie into the California Highway Patrol computers?”
”What if I could?”
”Well, if you could, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the police reports Because, as I re funny about Max Jones,” Scott said, and then added ly, ”but that's only if you have access to the saet for 2 It's all public infor this,” Tyrone said as he pecked at the keyboard
”Bullshi+t You do it all the time”
”Not as a public service” The screen darkened and then an- nounced that Tyrone had been given access to the CHiP computers
”So suppose I could do that, I suppose you'd want a copy of it”
”Only if the switch on the right side of the printer is turned ON and if the paper is straight Otherwise, I just wouldn't bother” Scott stared at the ceiling while the dotas the head traveled back and forth
Tyrone scanned the print out co from the computers in Cali- fornia ”You have one fuckuva memory Sheee-it” Scott sat up quickly
”What, what does it say?” Scott pressured
”It appears that your friend Max Jones was killed in an autohway 275 at 12:30 AM” Ty stopped for a moment to read more ”He was found, dead, at the bottoh the barriers