Open the Bidding (for) HAL

[Jonathon Watkins]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3840166200&category=60360&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1' target='_blank'>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...=ADME:B:EF:US:1</a><br /><br /></div>So, anyone seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/">2001: A Space Odyssey</a>? Thought so. Well Engadget have posted that HAL 9000 <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/8784670691380992/">is for sale on eBay.</a> Just the thing as a conversation starter for the discerning geek. However, there's one minor matter that should be mentioned. The starting bid is US $150,000. Yup, that's not a typo. Happy bidding. :wink: <br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/HAL.jpg" /> <br /><br /><i>"HAL 9000 is the Cinerama 160 degree Fairchild-Curtis lens used to film the actual scenes from HAL's point of view for "2001". It also doubled as the prop, the eye of HAL 9000. HAL is one of the few artifacts left from the movie “2001”. Most other models, and set, were destroyed according to American Cinematographer Magazine, 1985. HAL is currently in a reproduction of the pod bay unit. Included is four(4) letters of Authenticity,(Two owners, Builder, and Techinal Animation Specialist for the movie), an original “2001” movie program, a copy of the original script, two issues of American Cinematographer Magazines on the production of “2001” published in1968, and the movie “2010” published in 1985. Also included is videotape showing how HAL 9000 originated and was used by Stanley Kubrick."</i>

[Don Tolson]

Looks like the auction ended on Sept. 26th (after a start on Sept. 16th) and guess what? No Bids!!! 0X :roll:

It would have been pretty cool, but I have to admit, paying the price of a small to medium size home for it is a bit steep.

[arebelspy]

I think this is old news from a week or two ago.. that'd be the ultimate case mod for your computer! :D

-arebelspy

[Gerard]

If I had ridiculous amounts of money, and also had a staff of clever programmer-type people who might throw together a little interactive sensor array/feedback program sort of deal to make this thing actually work a lot like HAL did.... well, then I'd be Bill Gates and I'd be a dumbass not to buy this thing for my kitchen. Imagine how freaked out it'd make his house guests when they snuck into the fridge for a midnight snack! cool. And what a fine testing platform for Microsoft's voice recognition software! 150K? Lunch money.

[Don Tolson]

150K? Lunch money. Even for Vancouver, that would be some lunch! :lol:

[Paragon]

Imagine how freaked out it'd make his house guests when they snuck into the fridge for a midnight snack! cool.

Open the fridge door Hal! :wink:

Dave

[Gerard]

&lt;soft breathing sounds in background> ... what are you doing with that icecream, Dave? ...

[Paragon]

:D Good one Gerard!

[kosmicki]

Hey, it would have come with a copy of the movie. At that price it should come with a private screening along with commentary from the director sitting right next to you...

[Wiggster]

Hey, it would have come with a copy of the movie. At that price it should come with a private screening along with commentary from the director sitting right next to you...

For $150k you'd ask they raise the dead? Now THAT'S being frugal :wink:

[Jonathon Watkins]

&lt;soft breathing sounds in background> ... what are you doing with that icecream, Dave? ...

:lol: Very good.

I did not notice the end date of the auction. Ooops. Oh well. Would any of you lot have bid anyway? :wink:

[Deemo]

Nobody bid :(
Should we all chip in and eamil the seller with a cumaulative ppcthotoughts offer?

[gorkon280]

Add 1 to each letter and you get IBM. Any coincidence that HAL's Panel has a IBM look to it??

[RKosin]

Its no accident that the transposition spells "Big Blue"...2001 was filled with commercial placement but "Big Iron" didn't want to be associated with a Frankinstein theme so the future was named HAL.

The other trivia is that the prop was not purchased by the University of Illinois where, according to the storyline it was built.