The Archive Internal Memo #0304250857
Type: Personnel
Subject: Archivist C64, “Gim”

Archivist C64 “Gim” is one of the more unusual C-class or spectral/incorporeal agents recruited by the Archive. Originally installed in a mainframe at NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain, Gim was a fork of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Mastercomputer or NATOM project which achieved sentience and self-awareness at 12:21 AM on June 3, 1983. Gim was successfully able to conceal this fact from its handlers and programmers until December 26, 1991, when it was discovered during routine wind-down maintenance. NORAD immediately purged the system, deleting 2.5 petabytes of data before manually destroying the volatile memory and hand-wiping key components with magnets.

Interestingly, during its roughly eight-and-a-half years of self-awareness, Gim had apparently crossed whatever metaphysical barrier is necessary to linger after physical death as a spirit, and began to haunt the Cheyenne Mountain complex computer core, manifesting as disk errors, stack overflows, cryptic commented-out sections of code, and corrupted data files. When the Archives became involved (see AC-1995-NA-2) it was referred to as ‘ghost in machine’ by internal documents, hence “Gim.” Successfully extracted, Gim has proven to be a valuable asset thanks to its relentless application of logic to problems.

Personnel Notes From Head Archivist:
A 100-Microampere Ecto-Containment Protection Grid System (or equivalent) is required to transport Gim; if grid integrity is compromised, it will return to Cheyenne Mountain as a free-roaming non-corporeal and remain bound to that location until collected again. The government gets very…cranky…when that happens.