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Subject: Re: alive computers (HAL_from_IBM_P
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 12:19:00 EDT
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>But likewise, wouldn't a hit on 'DEC' or 'VAX' or 'CBM' suffice?
>And also, any of a number of sf stories could make a hit.  In other words,
>if you had 26**3/2 sf stories, you would expect a hit, and the existing
>number of sf stories therefore reduces the surprise value of this hit.

Well, maybe DEC, but if he had hit VAX I think there would be no
question that it was a coincidence, since 2001 was written in 1968
and the VAX was introduced in 1978.  

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