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Remember how Dave has to pull the rows of circuit boards to shut down HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey…. According to the docent at CHM, this particular ILLIAC IV computer, with its unique architecture, was the inspiration to Stanley Kubrick for that scene.

In this SIMD parallel computing machine, each board has a fixed program that it would farm out to an array of Burroughs machines. It was the “cutting edge” in 1966.

20 responses to “HAL Beta 0.66”

  1. wow very informative pic..

  2. blades: cutting edge since ’66 and before…

  3. IlliaC??????

    …and NapoleonZ… 😉

    "The man from U.N.C.L.E." was also cutting edge in 1966… I wonder if there is any connection…

  4. what, no "click here to watch now" button? excuse me what millenium are we in now? im confused.

  5. My mind is going… I can feel it!

  6. Sing a diddy while the rivets are popping….

    Looks like there is a card pulled every 10 years… But you look young. Maybe it’s from whiffing the plastic glue. =)

    f(foo): Isn’t a blade a cutting edge by definition?

  7. Good point. Also cold.

    "I feel,
    cold as a razor blade,
    tight as a tourniquet
    dry as a funeral drumb.

    Run to the bedroom
    in the suitcase on the left
    you´ll find…"

    What?

  8. btw, that link is subtle advertising…

    LOL! =D

  9. "you’ll find my favourite axe.
    Don’t look so frightened
    This is just a passing phase
    Just one of my bad days
    Would you like to watch T. V.?
    Or…"

  10. +P

    *faint*

    …well, contemplating the silent freeway would do, too.

    sure.

  11. how about something to eat?

  12. J(*), do you think those Posit Science people could do something for my brain?

  13. Quite possibly…. but heh, heh, heh…. who knows what side effects a better memory might bring for someone caught in a recursive function call…. I’d think you’d want imperfections to break free from the infinite loop….

  14. thanks for your answer.. i’ll keep watching the site in case they come up with a breakthrough in neural stack enlargement.

  15. Interesting. Where was this taken?

  16. gocarrt: that’s the right diddy.

    Sam: The Computer History Museum in the old SGI headquarters. The link in the original posting takes you there.

  17. Thanks for answering my question.

  18. Daisy, Daisy, give your answer do…

  19. Many thanks for posting this under creative commons. I’ve used it on my blog at cockburndj.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/inspirations-artifici…, attributing you and linking to this page.

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