Artifact Details

Title

Miniterminal prototype from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Catalog Number

102695571

Type

Still image

Description

Photograph depicting prototype of wrist-mounted minicomputer created for the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." Wrist-mounted computer served as remote accessory for the HAL 9000 (originally referred to as "Athena") computer.

Date

1965 ca.

Photographer

Hawthorne, Allen

Publisher

Eliot Noyes

Credit

Gift of Allen Hawthorne

Lot Number

X5643.2010