Aperture Science Core Input Receptacle

"To initiate a core transfer, please deposit substitute core in the receptacle."

- Aperture Science Announcement System

The Aperture Science Core Transfer Receptacles are computer data ports that allow Aperture Science Personality Constructs to be attached to them and upload data or override computer functions seen in Portal 2. They can be found throughout the Aperture Laboratories as one is located in GLaDOS's main computer chamber and others are even found in test chambers.

Overview

 * When Chell was working alongside with Wheatley trying to escape, to be able to venture on forward in a test chamber they needed to plug Wheatley into one of the Core Transfer Receptacles so that way he can override the testing protocols and help them both escape.


 * Chell also used the computer port inside GLaDOS's chamber to get Wheatley to command the facility allowing them to both escape. When the Aperture Science Announcement System mentioned that they can bypass GLaDOS due to her being corrupted and replace her with Wheatley, Chell plugs Wheatley into the Core Transfer Receptacle.


 * Finally, GLaDOS also uses that very same Aperture Science Core Transfer Receptacle in the main computer chamber to transfer herself from the potato to her old body and disconnect Wheatley who would have destroyed the facility and everyone in it.

Trivia

 * Despite the fact that when GLaDOS was a potato, she can still manage to plug herself into the Core Transfer Receptacle somehow meaning size did not matter as long as you have a connecting port
 * A Core Transfer Receptacle was never seen in GLaDOS's original computer chamber (or any test chambers) in the first Portal despite that they now suddenly make an appearance in Portal 2 though they may have still been hidden during the events of the first Portal
 * Humorously, Wheatley seems to feel a degree of embarassment if someone directly watches him interfacing with a Receptacle, saying that he "can't do it if [Chell is] watching".
 * The hidden companion Cube in the final chamber of Course 4 of the Cooperative Testing Initiative is installed into a Transfer Receptacle.

List of appearances

 * Portal 2