The HAL 9000 Memory Unit

The HAL 9000 Memory Unit is either 5 or 14 years late, depending on you look at it, and its on-board memory store is more than capable of handling all your mission requirements, Dave (1GB for $70). Just make sure to place that quarter squarely on top when you're talking about it.

[Via The Red Ferrett]

[Alex Quant @ Feb 23rd 2006 10:15AM]

Hmm. I'd be nervous using this device - will it try to destroy my PC or PDA if it discovered a conflict in its memory storage mission?

Will it beg me to reconsider if I were to attempt a format, and if I chose to go ahead will I have to endure a slurred version of "Daisy, Daisy"?

NO! I can't take the risk.

[strider_mt2k @ Feb 23rd 2006 10:19AM]

I'll buy one, but only because of it's enthusiasm for the mission.

[Special_K @ Feb 23rd 2006 10:21AM]

I'm way to young for 2001: A Space Osdessy; is this what HAL's memory units actually looked like? 'cause if it is, a friend of mine is in for a schweet birthday present.

[n8 @ Feb 23rd 2006 10:23AM]

I hope this isn't a licensed product. What an insult to the Clarke/Kubrick legacy.

[Brado @ Feb 23rd 2006 10:32AM]

They were holographic (Yeah Clarke where is it huh?) memory units, and on the movie whre Dave is pulling them out one by one they are pretty much rectangular pieces of glass.

[kenny @ Feb 23rd 2006 10:41AM]

they could have at least tried to make it look like HAL 9000's memory units, with clear plastic...

[Bob Backland @ Feb 23rd 2006 11:19AM]

I understand where you get 5 years, but how do you get 14 years to late?

[kbiel @ Feb 23rd 2006 11:35AM]

To #1

But no HAL 9000 unit has ever had a fault. They have a perfect operational record. I suggest that you put your PC or PDA back in service and wait for it to fail again.

[Finished.Law.School @ Feb 23rd 2006 12:18PM]

All computers should be named Hal with a number after it...

[Thomas Gill @ Feb 23rd 2006 12:29PM]

To #7
Look at the website/recall the book/movie... HAL was created in 1992 in Illinois.

TEG

[SubGenius @ Feb 23rd 2006 12:41PM]

I bought one of these tiny 1GB disks and promptly lost it in less than 24 hours. They are too small! I would strongly recommend attaching a lucky rabbits foot to it or some other very large visible object.

[wonkman @ Feb 23rd 2006 1:17PM]

I'm still waiting to get back my AE-35 unit. I RMAed it but they couldn't find anything wrong with it.

[jim @ Feb 23rd 2006 1:18PM]

I thought that the memory units were clear lucite in the film, or were those the computing elements? I forget the design, my schematics are misplaced right now

[navamske @ Feb 23rd 2006 1:38PM]

Does it work with Daisy-chained devices?

[JayP @ Feb 23rd 2006 1:59PM]

Only if it plays "A Bicycle Built For Two".

[Joe @ Feb 23rd 2006 2:57PM]

this is just a rebranded PQI "intelligent stick"

great little memory card, and it comes with adapters that make it "normal" size so you dont lose it. i drilled a hole in the adapter and use it as a keychain.

[strider_mt2k @ Feb 23rd 2006 2:59PM]

I'm sorry Jay, I'm afraid it can't do that.

[Hal @ Feb 23rd 2006 4:18PM]

This is so mine.

[thedvs01 @ Feb 23rd 2006 6:22PM]

Actually its 5, 9, or 14 years late. 5 from year 2001, 9 from 1997 (the year that HAL was created in the novel), and 1992 (the year HAL was created in the film).

[Jake Good @ Feb 23rd 2006 8:01PM]

I got mine in today... aparantley HAL doesn't like my laptop as nothing happened when I threw it in the USB port.

Maybe I have to unmute my laptop mic :)

[Sparx67 @ Feb 23rd 2006 9:27PM]

Definately want one.

We need more tech things to display a bit of imagination with their labelling etc. I don't think it is offensive to Kubrick/Clarke.

Great to see someone has a sense of humour !

[TadpoleBuckshot @ Feb 24th 2006 4:09PM]

It's full of stars!

[eivinde @ Mar 12th 2006 1:07PM]

Are PQI the original maker of this stick?