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What do the letters HAL stand for and is there a connection with IBM?

April 26, 2017connection hal IBM letters stand

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What do the letters HAL stand for and is there a connection with IBM?

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Just to show you how interpretations can sometimes be bewildering: A cryptographer went to see the film, and he said, “Oh, I get it. Each letter of HAL’s name is one letter ahead of IBM […] now that’s pure co-incidence […] an almost inconceivable co incidence. It would have taken a cryptographer to notice that.