Post #4377426
2026-08-04 13:34 UTC
@jd@ottawa.place @Deixis9@beige.party @davep@infosec.exchange
😂
apparently arthur c clarke visited bell labs in 1962 and the programmers demonstrated the IBM 704 singing the song, and clarke thought it was a great horror motif
i think he was right
this is not hal 9000, this is an IBM 704 in the 1960s:
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@hamishb@mstdn.ca 2026-08-04 14:27
75 years later, countless pop songs sound like this. @benroyce@mastodon.social @jd@ottawa.place @Deixis9@beige.party @davep@infosec.exchange
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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-08-04 13:48
H-I A-B L-M (alphabetically adjacent) @benroyce@mastodon.social @jd@ottawa.place @Deixis9@beige.party @davep@infosec.exchange