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
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