On 10/24/2010 4:00 AM Kurt Ullman spake thus:

In article ,
David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 10/23/2010 8:26 PM Robert Green spake thus:

Well, at least SOME good has come out of this farrago of a thread. Have a
good friend who used to teach there. Trivia fans will note Urbana is
allegedly the birthplace of HAL in 2001.

So, do they still call it "Shampoo-Banana"?

HAL a direct descendent of PLATO. Things suddenly become clearer
(g).

??????? Obviously a computer reference, but I'm at a disadvantage here
since I started computer-ing rather late, after the punch-card/PDP-11
age[1] ...


[1] First experiences: BASIC (later COBOL) on a Sperry-Univac
something-something, FORTRAN on a Honeywell DPS-8, and COBOL/JCL on a
System/360.


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