Two age before Stanley Kubrick let go of 2001 : A Space Odyssey , he was starting to interest that IBM would get a little brainsick when HAL 9000 , the reckoner they helped plan , came off , well , psychotic .
To ease his tumultuous psyche , Kubrick charge his product company ’s vice Chief Executive , Roger Caras , the watch over varsity letter stool sure IBM — whose logo shortly appear in the film — knew what exactly they were getting themselves into .
According to Caras , IBM had no trouble with their power - hungry auto or screen credit — so long as they ’re in no way directly associated with HAL ’s little homicidal rampage or , as they term it , “ equipment failure . ” While there ’s long been speculation over the fact that IBM is just one alphabetic shift off from being HAL , both Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke , the novel ’s author , have denied any intentional allusion . [ Letters of NoteviaThe Atlantic ]
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