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From: ericb@dartvax.UUCP (Eric J. Bivona)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Answer to 2010 Trivia Question
Message-ID: <1509@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 04:09:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 04:09:57 1984
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Organization: Dartmouth College
Lines: 14

(an amazing bit of folklore, this line...)

It was HAL because --> H.I
                       A.B
                       L.M

It comes before IBM alphabetically. 

Eric Bivona
"Once a gene sequence, always a gene sequence"
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