Cam_the_Man
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Posts: 1,747 | Re: Favorite robot movie?
on Tuesday, May, 20, 2008 5:28 PM
MutoidMan Wrote:There's HAL 9000 of the USS Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and his Earth-based counterpart SAL 9000.
I'm a little surprized that no one has mentioned Robots seeing as how there are nothing but robots in it! |
Little know fact:
The computer system HAL was supposed to be a tounge-in-cheek reference to IBM, H,A, and L being the preceeding letters, respectively.
An no I didn't make that up.
 
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TRON.dll: (Captures the intelligence) "I have take the intelligence and it will cause meltdown!"
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KiaPurity
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Posts: 3,488 | Re: Favorite robot movie?
on Tuesday, May, 20, 2008 7:12 PM
Short Circuit is a favorite of mine. 
I can't say I've seen enough of Robot movies.  But Black Hole creeped me out a lot. >.misoprostol dose abortion medical abortion pill online
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death-program
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Posts: 0 | Re: Favorite robot movie?
on Tuesday, May, 20, 2008 7:22 PM
Cam_the_Man Wrote:
Little know fact:
The computer system HAL was supposed to be a tounge-in-cheek reference to IBM, H,A, and L being the preceeding letters, respectively.
An no I didn't make that up.
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According to Arthur C. Clarke, it means Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. But I think you are right.
From Wikipedia:
| Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. In 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: "tter nonsense! [...] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic". |
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