From: donald tees on
Alistair wrote:
>> That may be true, but a huge space ship flying out to the outer
>> reaches of jupiter? You would think that if they could build that,
>> they could build a self-programming computer. One of the things in
>> that movie that really paints it in a 1960's time frame is the size of
>> the rooms that contained HAL's memory.
>>
>
> Just how did they get rid of all of the heat that the electronics
> generated? Sorry, it only just came to mind.

They are writers ... they wrote it off.

Donald