Bits & Bytes

Beads of sweat flowed down from his temples to his cheek. The intense concentration has made his eyes an unblinking pair of sharp lasers that can cut through anything by a mere glance. His hands however belied what his face showed. They were rock steady.

286378 has trained himself rigorously for the past many years. He had practised day and night for this opportunity he was looking at face to face. I must not falter.. that was the singlemost thought that ran through his mind when he edged closer to the machine. His fingers twitched in anticipation. These two key combination will do the trick.. He spoke to no one in particular. Not even to himself. After all, when you are facing death and starvation, it doesn't matter whom you are talking to. He closed his fingers on the machine and readied himself for the impact. NOW.. even before his brain could utter that word and he could blink his eye.. he had pressed those keys. The machine swung into action... the electrons rushed to meet the circuits... the circuits fired up and did what it was supposed to do. Neither any sound was heard nor any spark of light flew. It was all over in a matter of mere microseconds.

The circuits saved 368640 bits of data to the harddisk.

"Mission Accomplished", he said to himself and rose from his seat. He needed to get out in the open air. "Nice time for the A/C to go bad", he swore at the A/C and went for lunch.