OT: Hard drive warning at boot time

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/22/2013 05:12 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 21 June 2013, Tom Horsley sent:
>> Just remember what happened when HAL told Dave the AE-35
>> unit would fail in 24 hours :-).
>
> Read the book, it's much more comprehensive than the film (which was
> shortened, significantly).  There's a lot more to that part of the plot
> than the film conveys.
>

ROTFLMAO!  The film was based on a short story, *The Sentinal,* By 
Arthur C. Clark, who later wrote a novel *based on* the film. 
Naturally, in that novelization, he had room to add considerable 
back-story and detail that wasn't in the film.