Uncle Randy

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Uncle Randy was the previous owner of the player's TIS-100 system and the player's uncle. He passed away shortly before the game beings.
==Biography==
Uncle Randy was a computer hobbyist who enjoyed tinkering with microcomputers. On May 10th, 1979, he purchased a TIS-100 system during a "swap meet". The devices was originally going for $450, but Randy managed to talk the seller down to just $200.
Later that same in year in July 18th, Randy had a chat with Bernie at IBM and was told it seemed like the device was from the USSR. Randy felt that didn't make much sense since the manual was in English. A day later, Randy discovered that the TIS-100 had some form of "encoded static memory. Months later, on September 3rd of 1979, Randy commented that the static memory was in a proprietary format he was unfamiliar with. Randy also commented he felt the who microcomputer market would fail soon due to the high number of systems coming out from every "Tom, Dick, and Mary" which is an interesting take on the phrase "every Tom. Dick, and Harry."
The following year on January 31, Randy contacted someone by the name of Fred. Fred claimed it sounded like the TIS-100 was designed for signal processing. Randy attempted to make the soviet connection again, speculating that the device might be made to intercept soviet radio transmissions.
Years passed before Randy took another look at the TIS-100 in his possession. Finally on May 5th, 1994, 14 years after he last entry, Randy left another comment on the TIS-100. He mentioned his girlfriend was encouraging him to get rid of all the microcomputers he had been accumulating. He was afraid to toss out the TIS-100 for fear of getting found out that he had some classified government device. He had not been able to confirm if it was, in fact, a classified device, but he was unwilling to take the chance without further investigation. 
Throughout 1994, Randy became increasingly more mentally unwell. He mentioned he felt like he was close to the people that made the TIS-100, though that wasn't technically possible. It seems likely he neglected his girlfriend in order to work on the machine for day and days on end, slowly losing his sanity as he attempted to make more sense of the device. He mentioned being tired of people who didn't respect him.
Towards the end of 1994, on the 30th of December, Randy's sister visited him. Randy assumed it was to check up on him, likely because of him spending far too much time with the TIS-100. Randy's Sister's child mentioned looking up the specs for the machine on the internet and Randy mentioned he wasn't too fond of the internet and had no need for it.
By July of 2004, Randy had lost is job and seemed to have begun to hallucinate as he kept hearing noises from his garage. He resumed tinkering on the TIS-100 in hopes to keep his programming skills up while job hunting. By September 17th, he still was without employment. He lamented then that no one wanted to hire "old washed up Randy" when young programmers at this time were allegedly willing to work 100 hour weeks for nothing. Randy also mentioned being lousy at promoting himself and complained that he had no one to promote him, likening himself to a Steve Wozniak without a Steve Jobs or a Paul Allen without a Bill Gates. Randy appeared to have felt lonely. This was likely of his own making as he appears to have spent too much time tinkering with computers.
On August 20th, 2004, Randy had begun to feel as if he were in the presence of another being and expressed wanting to become a TIS so he could just take inputs and process outputs. His log at this point was rambling on about it. 11 days later he mused on the notion that the TIS must have come from a different world
Eventually, the noises in Randy's garage started to bug him so much that on May 17, 2005, he went to get some tests done at a hospital. While he was there, he studied the TIS-100 manual in order to look more into the image processing capabilities while he waited for the results. The hospital test results came back negative, which Randy found to be strange.
Shortly afterwards, Randy had a dream about a large circle of eyes pointed inward at the world, though he passed it off as just a dream. He eventually figured out or speculated that the device was a "bridge" device designed to connect this world and the world he believed the TIS to be from. Randy spoke about making / shaping reality by having an array of TIS devices working in parallel. In his final journal entries, he started speaking about how the device was designed to observe something specific and how structures of the past persist and become memory. He alleged the TIS was mean to take something in, to see something. That seeing is a form of control.
==Personality==
Uncle Randy appears initially to be a charismatic person or at least a person of enough charisma to haggle. Over the course of his usage of the TIS-100, he appears to become more aloof to those around him. He starts showing more and more disdain for people around him and more of a desire to be appreciated for his skills and seemingly wanting to be a computer.