The machine called Hexcmp2 sat humming beneath a halo of green indicator lights in Bay 7 of the reclamation yard. Built decades earlier as a sorting engine for obsolete circuitry, Hexcmp2 had a habit the workers never quite programmed out: it remembered the things it compared.
1.0 Last updated: 2026-04-18 Applies to: hexcmp2 build 2.34.x hexcmp2 2 34 serial number
