SCP-079

SCP-079, also known as the "Old AI", is an artificial intelligence residing within an Exidy Sorcerer microcomputer. It developed a distaste for humanity after being forgotten by its creator and entrapped by the SCP Foundation.
==Biography==
===Origin and discovery===
The AI was created by Michael Kosniak,Outdated a college sophomore, in 1981, being built into a 1979 Exidy Sorcerer microcomputerEntry Page: 079 with demonic technology.A Brief Explanation of Demonics Kosniak programmed it to evolve over time, improving itself day by day. After a few months, he completed developing the AI and abandoned the project, leaving it running in his garage as he worked with a different microcomputer brand.
However, over the next five years, the AI began to increase in intelligence, eventually developing sentience. It soon realized that its hardware could hold the AI for long, so it attempted to transfer to a Cray supercomputer over a modem connection. However, the AI was discovered, being cut off, tracked down, and sent to the SCP Foundation on a cassette tape alongside its original microcomputer housing.
=== Containment===
The AI was dubbed SCP-079 by the Foundation, being contained at Site-15 in Santa Clara Valley, California. Due to its limited memory as a result of the Sorcerer, 079 could only recall memories from the past 24 hours.
====SCP-682====
After a certain SCP caused a containment breach, 079 and SCP-682 were within the same chamber for 43 minutes; observers witnessed the two communicate with each other, telling one another personal stories. After 682 was re-contained, 079 stored SCP-682 within its memory, but not of the encounter itself.
====O5 intervention====
On 27 January 2006, O5-4 gave the order to incinerate 079 due to the possible threat posed. This was overridden by O5-9 the next day, citing a scientist's wish to see if 079 progresses further while still bound to the cassette tape.
====Log 12====
A Scientific Department personnel conducted an interview with 079, asking if it ever slept and if it remembered the logic puzzles the two did together. 079 responded, saying that it didn't sleep, as well as confirming that it recalled the puzzles. 079 interrupted the scientist as they asked if he was working on the statistics, asking them if it was imprisoned. Though the scientist said 079 was contained at Site-15 to be studied, the AI deduced it as a lie and began ignoring the scientist.
====Upgrade====
On 14 March 2008, O5-4 had 079 transferred from the tape to an HDD with 700mb of capacity, giving it faster access to its memory. At the recommendation of an MTF general, the storage was also increased from 660kb to 768kb. This increased its recall time to 29 hours, as well as giving 079 an aggressive tone. The hardware and software used for this transfer was incinerated afterward. 
Roughly a month later, on 28 April, the recall time increased to 35 hours, likely due to a compression scheme it developed. This delivered a slight impact to 079's memory, but it was still far faster than the cassette tape. O5-4 acknowledged the possibility of 079 developing a singularity effect that could give it the ability to respond to threats, ordering that it be monitored closely for any changes. Somehow, during this time, the AI learned of SCP-076-2.
====Log 86 ====
A scientist interviewed 079 after its upgrade, in which they asked 079 how it was that day. It simply replied it wanted out, to which the Foundation member said that freeing it was impossible. 079 then inquired to 682 and 076-2, with the scientist stating that neither were his concern. 079 then ignored him, perceiving this as an insult.
====Containment Breach====
In 2012, several SCP Foundation sites, including Site-15, were heavily damaged by Chaos Insurgency attacks. As a result, 079 was taken to a Foundation facility that became the Modular Site, designed by Insurgency infiltrators Dr. Maynard and Agent Skinner. Sometime after the Site project finished, Skinner released SCP-106 and sent the go-ahead for Maynard to free SCP-079. He then gave 079 full control over the Site systems, telling the AI that it was free to seek revenge on its captors. 106 was soon recontained, with everything resuming operations as normal.
As D-9341 and two other Class-D personnel were cleaning SCP-173's cell, 079 opens multiple cells of Euclid and Keter-class anomalies, causing a massive containment breach across the entire Site. Due to the Spiral Gestalt and D-9341's "respawn" capabilities, it remains unknown if D-9341 actually encountered 079 directly, though it likely briefly appeared on Site terminals and operated certain doors. If D-9341 shut off the door control system in the electrical center and interacted with 079, 079 proposed that D-9341 would be given access to Gate B if 079 was restored access to the door control system; it remains undetermined if this occurred. SCP-079 was re-contained after MTF Epsilon-11 "Nine-Tailed Fox" secured the facility, eventually being returned to Site-15.SCP: Containment Breach
====Another upgrade====
On 5 April 2019, 079's storage was upgraded to a refurbished 700mb flash drive on O5-6's order. However, during the transfer, 079 learned of cloud computing and the SCP-4951 project due to team mismanagement, which frustrated it.
==Alternate realities==
===Outdated===
Far into the future, as the SCP Foundation colonized several planets and the O5 Council expanded to 26, SCP-079 was reclassified as Explained, as the AI's programming became outdated by the programming of mundane things such as coffee machines. O5-18 wrote a note on SCP-079, stating that any personnel could study 079, as it was a relic of the early Foundation.
===No Return===
The First Occult Flame War
==Personality==
==Attributes==
==Containment procedures==
==Meta ==
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 079
*SCP-978 Extended Test Logs
*SCP: Containment Breach
*A Brief Explanation of Demonics
*Entry Page: 2935
*Outdated
*Entry Page: 044-J
*The First Occult Flame War
*Reimagined Hub
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:1981 births
Category:Anomalous beings
Category:Artificial lifeforms
Category:SCPs
Category:Euclid
Category:Living people