I then spent nearly two hours trying to find the stupid thing...

It seemed pretty straightforward to me:

• Pick up the radio transmission
• Mark that quest as active
• Go to the marked location on the map

It looked to me like I had melted into a puddle; as if I had been hit by a plasma rifle.

So many possibilities wasted; ghoulification for one.

So if that gun is a Class I medical device, does that mean that the TSA will have to allow them to be carried on aircraft?

There were lots of third party compression utilities before DOS 6.

I used to use one called diet. It would intercept calls to read from files, and check to see if it had compressed them. If it had, it would unpack them to another location (I used a resizable ramdisk) and redirect the read to the uncompressed copy.

When the file was closed, it would delete the decompressed copy.

It would only work on read only files, but it worked pretty well. In the days before disk caching, uncompressing to the ramdisk actually made things faster despite the overhead of the decompression.