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No, the point about HAL 9000 being named after IBM isn't true: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7 http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.htm
by CM30 11y ago
No, the point about HAL 9000 being named after IBM isn't true:
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7 http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7
The video game company HAL Laboratory (maker of the Kirby series)... they did name their company so each letter was one before IBM:
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_where_the_name_hal_laboratory_came_from http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_wher...
- abdias 11y agoThanks, I stand corrected. It was a fun theory though and it will probably not go away anytime soon. Kubrick himself claimed HAL stood for "heuristic and algorithmic" according to this article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/07/hal_9000_ibm_theory_stanley_kubrick_letters_shed_new_light_on_old_debate.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/07/hal_9000_ibm_...