Very OT -- What (Who) was HAL9000 (was Re: [Ti] HAL9000 wallpaper)

[William Scammell]

>
>*scratching head*...what is Hal9000?

go watch "2001".

based on an Arthur C. Clarke short story ("The Sentinel" iirc)

directed by Stanely Kubrick iirc.

HAL9000 was the Artificial Intelligent computer that goes loopy.


inside joke on that name, btw:

convert letters to number (i.e. A = 1, B = 2, etc.)

I   -1
B   -1
M   -1

becomes HAL


b


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