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An I/O Tower (or Input/Output Tower) is a location in the Computer World that programs use to communicate with their users. Programs regard these towers with reverence, and each tower has a Guardian to protect it. Notable Tower Guardians include Dumont and I-No.

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  • An I/O Tower (or Input/Output Tower) is a location in the Computer World that programs use to communicate with their users. Programs regard these towers with reverence, and each tower has a Guardian to protect it. Notable Tower Guardians include Dumont and I-No.
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  • An I/O Tower (or Input/Output Tower) is a location in the Computer World that programs use to communicate with their users. Programs regard these towers with reverence, and each tower has a Guardian to protect it. Notable Tower Guardians include Dumont and I-No. Due to the vital service they provide, I/O towers are located centrally in their sectors. They can be identified by the powerful energy beams linking them with the outside world, which shine red when the channel is closed and blue when information flows through them. Programs who wish to communicate with Users, or sense that their Users are calling them, go to their local I/O Towers to communicate. I/O towers were so essential that the MCP was reluctant to interfere with them, leaving Dumont's tower open in case his forces needed to "deal with the Other World once in a while," but eventually he appropriated a number of dissident Guardians and attempted to absorb their functions in hopes of making independently-operated Towers redundant. When the MCP was destroyed, the sky quickly lit up with blue I/O beams as freed programs resumed communication with their Users.
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