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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Xuan on Fri, 12 August 2011, 12:36:16
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PCWord's original review (http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/2099409/ibm-pc-original-review-personal-model-5150)
The 'typamatic' keyboard is a work of art. Offering tactile feedback and automatic repeating on certain keys, it contains every key you could imagine using, all in a well-designed unit that owes a lot to IBM's experience in typewriter design.
However, a mysterious key called Scroll Lock doesn't actually do anything.
(http://media.cakecentral.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/24294/normal_computercake1.jpg)
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From Wired (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/gallery-ibm-5150turns-30/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Fgadgets+%28Wired%3A+Gadgets%29&pid=2285&viewall=true).
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Take IBM and subtract one letter backwards from the alphabet and what do you get? IBM=HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Watch this (http://youtu.be/7gO_eeluHE4)youtube video (starts at 1:13) for an in depth symbolism to what that movie was all about and watch that movie again, all I can say is wow.
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Take IBM and subtract one letter backwards from the alphabet and what do you get? IBM=HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Watch this (http://youtu.be/7gO_eeluHE4)youtube video (starts at 1:13) for an in depth symbolism to what that movie was all about and watch that movie again, all I can say is wow.
Sigh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name)
There were other weird crazy conspiracies, like saying IBM was the middle english rendition of Jacques DeMolay's name (the J would be an I of course). Obviously that's just pure rubbish.
It never ceases to amuse what weird conspiracies people make IBM into. IBM is a good company; one of the oldest in American business.
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If you have kept reading you would have seen this,
"As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.
Also, IBM is explicitly mentioned in the film 2001, as are many other real companies. IBM is given fictional credit as being the manufacturer of the Pan Am Clipper's computer, and the IBM logo can be seen in the centre of the cockpit's instrument panel." -Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name)