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Jack stands bowed down in front of the half-height rack, pulling on the handles of the secondary hard drive. It takes an unusual amount of force to pull out. The crunchy bearings scratch on the rails as they get dragged forward. He struggles for a while but, eventually, he gets the drive far enough out to fully expose the top cover with its compartment for a removable platter.
Anything in here? ... nope.
He undoes the thumb screws holding the assembly in place and lifts it out, revealing the the spindle with fixed platters, circuit boards, and the motor beneath.

He takes a close look at the upper-most platter. The brown surface coating is perfectly smooth – apart from an almost invisibly fine groove along its edge. Most likely the result of a crashed head but it looks like it might still be salvageable. He undoes two more thumb screws on the inside and the drive's front cover comes off. To get a better look, he takes the lamp off the desk and places it on the floor, pointing it at the drive. The light reveals an ugly surprise: The other three platters on the spindle get progressively worse. The second one has a deep silver groove, the one below has two grooves, and the last platter has a thick, silver-y white stripe lining its edge.
Well, there goes that pipe dream.

Jack puts the drive back together and pushes it back into the rack. Hopefully, Annie can get him the manual for the door, otherwise he'll have to somehow dig his way out of the bunker. But enough of that for now, Jack thinks and puts the thought aside for a while. Now, he needs a way to entertain himself until the evening.

This has been moved here from chapter 1 "Wake Up". It should be integrated into this chapter instead.

He walks over to the the teleprinter and opens the lid to find that something has eaten most of the paper. He removes the remains and opens one of the cabinets under the desks. By some miracle, whatever ate the paper didn't find the rest. He tears off a piece of the stack and puts it into the printer, feeding the end into the tractor mechanism. Then, he sits down at the terminal and logs on. This should be rephrased to indicate that there is some purpose to him opening the lid in the first place, like him wanting to change the ribbon bc it's no doubt deteriorated or something like that.

$ ls
$ pwd
/home/jack
$ cd /var/log
$ ls
cron outpost dmesg.log wtmp
$ cd outpost
$ ls
comms comms_diag event logbook
$ cat logbook > /dev/lp0
$ █

The printer comes to life and starts printing. Jack gets up and walks over to it. The printer prints. And it prints some more. The paper reaches the floor. Jack picks up the end and holds it, folding the pages along the perforated lines as they reach his hands. Finally, the printer stops to print. Jack turns the wheel on the side of the printer, manually advancing the feed mechanism, until he reaches the end of the page. Then, he tears it off and takes the small stack of paper back to the terminal desk. Trying his luck with the lamp again, he flips the switch multiple times until it stays on.

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    The outpost diagnostics suite reports no critical problems at any of
    our outposts. The Lunar Biosphere has, so far, not needed assistance
    from any of the outposts.
    Good work, everyone!

    The Future Is Bright.

2002-08-15 Lunar Biosphere:
    Crew wakeup command

    Message:
    //TODO
//TODO: more log messages left by people

missing: Jack reads the logbook, then he dials into the AgriWorks system and talks to Annie.
They talk about a few topics:

Annie's attempt to get the manual and what followed
Jack's background, past life, why he is there
life in the dome
the outside world (what happened, assumptions about what is)
- what happened: They came up with an alternative to asbestos. Turns out that a precursor to the new material is even more dangerous. A massive industrial accident happens. At least, the material breaks down over time.
Annie needs to go to meet the library guy