Screen Codes Defined
In the films the many computer screens that surround HAL's eye display everything from a chess game to mathematical calculations to instrument schematics. Interspersed in the cycle of various routine displays are three-letter codes that represent what topic of data will be displayed next.
These are the definitions of the various codes:
- COM: Communications
- NAV: Navigation
- LIF: Life Support
- VEH: Vehicle Status
- FLX: Flight Dynamics
- NUC: Nuclear Reactor Status
- HIB: Hibernation
- DMG: System Damage
- CNT: Control
- MEM: Memory
- TEL: Telemetry
- GDE: Guidance Data Extension
- ATM: Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitoring
Read more about this topic: HAL 9000
Famous quotes containing the words screen, codes and/or defined:
“We like the chase better than the quarry.... And those who philosophize on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase, which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal
Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood
By all, but which the wise, and great, and good
Interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Why is it so difficult to see the lesbian—even when she is there, quite plainly, in front of us? In part because she has been “ghosted”Mor made to seem invisible—by culture itself.... Once the lesbian has been defined as ghostly—the better to drain her of any sensual or moral authority—she can then be exorcised.”
—Terry Castle, U.S. lesbian author. The Apparitional Lesbian, ch. 1 (1993)