I had a special client that intrigued me. MegaPrimes Inc. They called me once a month on average. I would go to humble premises in an industrial area, locked with enormous padlocks – like something out of a cartoon. Inside a puny young man with haunted eyes would meet me at the foot of a spiral staircase, beside a large computer that was unlike anything I'd seen: it looked more like a cabinet, with an ugly little display.

The youth with haunted eyes would give me a hard disk, which I'd deliver to a suited guy hanging around an isolated suburban research center; he would come out with a heavy trunk full of cash for me to take away.

These episodes kept turning over in my mind... I asked myself: what the hell does this monstrous computer do that could be worth a whole pile of dough? Was I being played, like some fool from a fairy tale unknowingly shipping golden eggs on a monthly basis? Wasn't this a real chance to advance my career?