Rei Toei is an old IBM NetVista machine.
I got it from my nephew and for a while it worked as a sales computer in Gloria Biograf.
It was retired when we got a new system for the tickets and now I have reclaimed it to use as a terminal to manage V'ger.
It is running a Xubuntu system with a Xfce desktop,
but the desktop probably won't matter much,
as I will mostly be logging directly into V'ger's desktop environment.
Still, the Xfce seems nice.
While it functioned as a sales computer it was named Wong Faye
for various reasons including it was not on my own network,
so I did not have to stick to any dogma.
I have not read the William Gibson novels featuring Rei Toei,
but I thought a virtual idol was a suitable name change from Wong Faye.
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