Lambdatron

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Lambdatron is a private company and employer of several characters. It is an R&D shop with a reputation for innovation. "Break the Paradigm" is their frequently quoted motto. The company concentrates on research, development and design of processor-machine interfaces. It is based on the Menlo Park model on an "inventions factory" and are located in a set of unremarkable buildings in an industrial park in Tempe, Arizona.

They were founded by Stan Warshawski (now Senior Shareholder), Sam Trott (Vice Senior Sharefholder) and two other engineers when the company they worked for couldn't move from the "traditional proven technology" of electrical controls. The team won a subcontract for elevator controls using the 8008 chipset.

Lambdatron was chosen as a name without any real meaning, but to "sound sort of scientific and esoteric and fifties traditional, [to make] it sound like we'd been around for a while.". The founders deliberately eschewed typical business styles to keep improving. It is employee owned with a financial design referred to as "what happens when you let a bunch of early hippie computer nerds design a company".

Lambdatron likes hiring interns in college, ensuring the students haven't developed undesired habits, and immediately puts them on real projects to test their mettle. Interns that later are hired as stockholders include:

• Jennlynn Swift and Jim Geletzke for the summer of 1991.
• Jon Chladek and Tanisha Blythe for the summer of 1997.

Some employees are not full stockholders, but 'associates', the big difference being eligibility for bonuses. Some characters are not identified as to whether they are Stockholders or Associates include:

• Maureen Trott in Personel
• Angela, the receptionist
• Molly, the security officer