Johnny, Rosie, Shona and Sophie all headed upstairs. Closely followed by Jo, who wanted to talk to Sophie. They paused as Shona unlocked the door to the office/finds store. It was small and windowless, hardly bigger than a laundry room. Metal shelving ranged round the room on all sides, filled with large cardboard boxes and trays full of neatly labelled, plastic, `finds' bags.

Johnny looked round. "I thought you said there was a computer?"

"Shona nodded. "That's it, there." She pointed to a desk where a 21" monitor, midi tower, keyboard, scanner and printer were carefully arranged. "It's Teddy's pride and joy." She added.

"Is it some kind of television-scope? Where's the mainframe?"

Shona laughed. "That's all of it. It's connected to the telephone there by a broadband modem." She sat down and switched it on. "Were you expecting, maybe, punchcards? It's got a 2.45 gigahertz processor, 512 megabytes of Random Access Memory and two 180 gigabyte hard drives, for storage.

As machine ran through it's setup and the monitor filled with a colourful opening screen Johnny said, excitedly, "Hey! I'm not sure I'm on the beam with your multi-digit, pig-latinate, lingo, lady. Giga, Mega? Bytes? Is that like bits, or what?"

Shona, shook her head. A byte is an 8-bit unit and a megabyte is a thousand kilobytes, or 1024 bytes multiplied by a thousand." Seeing the look on Johnny's face, she paused before continuing. "A gigabyte is over a thousand megabytes. It's a bit late in the evening for an long explanation, I think."

"Yesterday, I was programming two UNIVAC 1103A's and A LARC II. Almost a bit at a time, using assembler and FORTRAN. The `Project' has, had, state of the art machines. We even had a three color television-scope for plotting field effect algorithms. What do archaeologists want with something this powerful?"

"Oh, it's very good for plotting site matrices in three dimensions, graphics, databases and for E-mail. I think Teddy and the others, really use it for games, films, music and hacking, though."

She pointed at a small table with part of a skull perched on top. Above it two web cams had been bolted together on an articulated rig with a couple of halogen spot lights. "Jo's a photography student in real life. She's become the site's unofficial photographer. You've been experimenting with photographing the finds in 3D, haven't you?"

Jo nodded. "So far it's just red/green steroscopy, but I've got a chit to buy some of those LC shuttered glasses. I've made a couple of movies with the finds rotating. They're no bad, actually." Jo punch up a blurred two colour animation of a splintered tibia. "It's better with the specs oan."