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Open the pod bay doors: Voice of HAL 9000 Douglas Rain dies at 90

Stevie

Bah!

Oh man, I was working late one night and had to perform an operation on a Sperry mainframe that first took away, then reinstated an in-core shared resource pool. The dialogue that the command to release the BDIs brought on was so HAL-like it was damn scary, alone as I was in a big office late at night.

It went along the lines of:

"Are you sure you want to do that?" - "yes"

"I will be unable to do x,y, and z if you continue. Please reconsider."

"Daisy" was running loud and strong in my head as I typed in the confirmation order, and it took me almost a minute of paranoid re-checking my notes before I nerved myself up to do so.

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