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Old 12-22-2016, 12:25 PM   #25101
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Do you know what the name of the HAL computer stands for?
I originally believed it was made up of each of the letters before those in "IBM", but I've since read that Clarke denied this, and that it was just a randomly made up name/acronym.
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