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HAL 9000 on the Auction Block

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-you-have-to-much-money-just-give-it-to-me dept.

pompous windbag writes "The Cinerama 160 degree lens used to both play and film the viewpoint of the famous paranoid processor. He's now up for sale on eBay, for the starting bid of just $150,000(USD). This looks like the real deal, complete with letters of authenticity and some extra goodies like "...an original '2001' movie program, a copy of the original script, two issues of American Cinematographer Magazines on the production of '2001' published in 1968, and the movie '2010' published in 1985. Also included is videotape showing how HAL 9000 originated and was used by Stanley Kubrick.' "

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  1. paypal? by Scottarius · · Score: 5, Interesting

    can you even send $150,000 through paypal?

    1. Re:paypal? by g3000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Dear Seller,

      If you can't accept my PayPal of $150,000+, I could arrange to send a personal check or even a wire transfer. I'd really like to have the item for a...well, a personal collection. I'm a real buff!

      And check my feedback!

      Thanks,
      PaulAllen1138

  2. Re:For just the lens? by MedHead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, you're paying the $150,000 for the camera lens. The HAL 9000 set is a reproduction.

  3. Forget HAL, get a Cray by mihalis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Working Cray Supercomputer for sale

    1. Re:Forget HAL, get a Cray by telemonster · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Oh yes, here is one for the books. The night before we embarked on the trip to get the Cray, a roomate and another friend decided to have fun with the truck we were to take on the trip.

      http://users.757.org/~fc/CrayExpress/

      One side actually made it from Virginia Beach to Pittsburgh in tact. Kind of funny rolling onto a gov't facility with that on the truck. The Cray Express part came off in rain and hit a BMW X5 in Williamsburg Va. They were pretty pissed off.

      Some day I will put together a full web page about that trip... it was exausting, but fun... mostly.

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      Southeastern Virginia REPRESENT!
  4. Fee for $150,000? by mantera · · Score: 2, Interesting


    How much is listing it on eBay for $150,000 going to cost him in fees if no one buys it? I'm assuming of course that he didn't list it on a free-listing day, does anyonw know if there's been a free-listing day 3 or 4 days ago?

    1. Re:Fee for $150,000? by fishbowl · · Score: 2, Interesting


      "How much is listing it on eBay for $150,000 going to cost him in fees if no one buys it?"

      $100 for the reserve, $4.80 for the listing, and 25 cents each for the photos, I think.

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      -fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
  5. Uh, maybe I should go on EBay. by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I have, in my office, the console of ILM's VAX 780 which subsequently became Pixar's VAX. Just the top part with the lights, logo, and the key, the rest was junked. I know for sure it was used to render original effects in Star Wars and the Genesis Effect scene in Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. Maybe I should put it on eBay.

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.
    1. Re:Uh, maybe I should go on EBay. by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 2, Interesting
      There is some wire-frame rendering. It may have been shot off of the screen of the E&S Picture System.

      Bruce

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      Bruce Perens.
  6. Second Auction Attempt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Should we wait till he cuts it in half again?
    Was $300,000

  7. MS+1=NT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've always wondered this: did microsoft intentionally create MS+1 = NT?

  8. Light coming out of the eye? by Jodka · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even for a homicidal cycloptic spaceship computer, I can't imagine any conceivable advantage to having red light shining out of your eye. Was the purpose of that ever explained in the film?

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    Ceci n'est pas une signature.
  9. I saw this dude selling it before... by stevenvi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a scam. I saw it online before. How the crap did this make it to Slashdot. I swear dumber and dumber articles get through each day. Nothing to see here, move along.

  10. Re:Inconsistencies render "explanation" null? by k98sven · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Personally, I think he would.

    I'm paraphrasing here, but Kubrick said something to the extent of "If you walk away from seeing 2001 without any questions, then we failed." - Kubrick's style was to ask questions.

    Clarke, on the other hand, always answered most if not all of his questions.

    I've read all the "2001" books, and seen most Kubrick films.
    (All except the small ones made prior to "The Killing")

    And IMHO, Kubrick is by far the greater artist of the two. Clarke not only 'answers' too many questions, he is a bit one-track. All the post-2001 books are really just rehashes of the same ideas.
    (In fact, almost ALL his books are rehashes of the same ideas, from "Childhoods end" to "Rama" to "2001"..)

    So.. I'd say: Yes, Stanley Kubrick would probably have something different to say. And it'd probably be more interesting too.

  11. Hits / bids ratio by robogun · · Score: 2, Interesting

    33,000 hits on that page at this point, against 0 bids placed... I think we got some kind of record