Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ccieng6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng6!dwr From: dwr@ccieng6.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Answer to 2010 Trivia Question ("Spoiler") Message-ID: <164@ccieng6.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-May-84 06:24:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ccieng6.164 Posted: Thu May 10 06:24:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 08:57:55 EDT References: <18@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Rochester, NY Lines: 11 XXXXXXX > > Here's a trivia question: why "HAL?" > <_Jym_> >: Jym Dyer : Nashua, NH : ...{allegra,decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!vaxuum!dyer : > The common answer to this is "IBM" rot 25, but this is pure coincidence. I heard that Arther C. Clarke was quite surprised when this was pointed out to him. D2