The SOTA Shoppe  1364 184th St.  The SOTA Shoppe is a high-end
boutique-style computer store that caters to the highest strata
of layman computer user and crosses over into the base level of
professional and decker-quality gear. SOTA is an acronym for
State of the Art, the common term in the shadow community for
the newest and most advanced technology available.  The Shoppe
is one of several small shop fronts in a wall of commercial
buildings that encompasses a blocks-long strip in the downtown
sprawl. Its neighboring business are similar to it in that they
are specialized enough or simply good enough that they have
managed to survive competition by the major omni-mart chains
that encompass virtually the entire retail environment. The SOTA
Shoppe also shares another commonality of survival with some of
them; it is, to a certain extent, a front for an entirely
different business that takes place on the upper level.  Someone
is using the upper floor of the SOTA Shoppe to house an
extremely advanced laboratory f