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From: bolyard@fortune.UUCP (Nelson Bolyard)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: About 2001 ,Hal and IBM ?!...
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Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 20:42:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 15 20:42:46 1983
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I recall once reading an article about the author of 2001 and 2010, in which
it was said that the name HAL was created by taking the letters IBM and taking 
the preceeding letter for each one. I-1=H, B-1=A, M-1=L. 

All flames to /dev/null please...