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> From: Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Today is an important day in the history of computing
> Date: Sunday, January 12, 1997 6:00 PM
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> The movie "2001" had a profound impact on a great many people of my age.
> Indeed, when I first met my wife in 1971, one of the first things that I
ever
> told her, romantic as it may be, was that I could ever own even a
fragment of
> a movie, it would the sequence from the opening credits of "2001"
through the
> appearance of the first obelisk with the ramapithecines to the almost
> instananeous (4 Myr) evolution of man and space stations and the docking
of
> the Pan Am shuttle with the space station, choreographed to the Blue
Danube
> Waltz. The only words that are spoken during that entire sequence occur
at
> the very end when Dr. Heywood Floyd says as he steps off the air lock,
"See
> you next trip."
>

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Wirt --- you have a habit of bringing back memories.  I saw this movie for
the first time when I was 11.  The person who took me to see this movie,
believe it or not, was our family minister (a good Baptist minister).  He
was doing is Masters work and it fit somehow into his thesis, and he
decided to take me along.

At 11 --- I didn't understand it all, but after seeing it numerous times
since, I now have an appreciation for this movie.  (Heck, it's part of the
video library here at the house --- right next to "The Adventures of
Buckaroo Bonzai" <g>

Joe