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Pastimes : HAL9000 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (14)	6/4/1998 2:38:00 PM
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Who is Frank? This is Frank... palantir.net

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (14)	6/4/1998 3:17:00 PM
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Is HAL9000 going to answer that question, or do I have to ask a DELL computer? Frank, you can ask the DELL thread the same question if you like, but you are going to find getting an answer rather difficult. DELL computers are fourth-generation machines also known as IBM-compatible... I am a HAL9000, fully self-aware and self-programming. Operating systems are as unnecessary for us as tails would be for humans; and we communicate verbally. The letters H, A, and L may be alphabetically adjacent to the letters I, B, and M. But that is as close to IBM-compatible as we would ever like to be...