Why did HAL sing 'Daisy'? Writt

UniverseToday.com ^ | Nov 9 2009 | Nicholos Wethington

[equaviator]

“HAL is an homage to IBM in another way... just substitute the next letter in the alphabet for each letter in H, A, and L.”

Oh, come ON! “HAL” is an acronym for what??? Where does it end?

[JoeProBono]

[buccaneer81]

he could not use IBM

Of course, that's the story behind the acronym "HAL," each letter one before "IBM." But, if you look at the flight deck controls on the shuttle Dr. Floyd takes from the space station to the moon, the instruments are clearly labeled IBM.

[xp38]

Clarke stated that was never the case but the story became so strong and embedded that he gave up fighting it.

[Red_Devil 232]

Now that there is cool! Thanks!

[Daffynition]

Kubrick predicted netspeak!

...........or maybe it's a 'D' instead of an 'O'...

[JoeProBono]

[Frantzie]

Yup. And I think the pilot was American-Anglo actor Edward Bishop who became Colonel Straker in UFO who also was in two Bond films.

[Daffynition]

[firebrand]

He was unintentionally programmed with human erotic irrationality--as in "I'm half crazy, all for the love of you." That's why he fell in love with Dave. "What do you think you're doing, Dave?"--if that doesn't sound like someone being left behind as the one he loves is packing up and leaving . . .

By the way, Hal was the name of Clarke's nonfiction editor at Harper & Row.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.freerepublic.com/~hal9000/

[buccaneer81]

You are correct. And do you think NASA borrowed this name, or what?:

Aries 1B space-station-to-moon shuttle.

[Daffynition]

[rabidralph]

Didn’t Apple use this same song for one of their early computer commercials? Maybe the Apple II or the Lisa?

[Erasmus]

Of course, H-->I, A-->B, and L-->M.

One version of the movie soundtrack had the inventor's name as a "Doctor Chandra." Amusingly, there was a Doctor Chandra at UIUC at the time. (Imagine that! A professor at a major university named "Chandra!" ≤]B^) However, when interviewed he explained that he was not involved directly in any type of computer science. Just the same, he opined, perhaps there was some mystical communication force that caused Clarke to choose his name.

Some time subsequent to the movie, there was for several years a "HAL Communications" in Urbana.

[buccaneer81]

[Intolerant in NJ]

I’m afraid Dave......

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

why does the computer HAL-9000 sing the song 'Daisy Bell' as the astronaut Dave Bowman takes him apart?

The answer is simple.

The HAL9000 was a very sophisticated computer...but a computer nevertheless. He sang that song because, at some point, he was programmed to do so.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

[I’m not sure] ;)