Rendezvous with Arthur

In this September, 1975, issue of the American fanzine The Spanish Inquisition, British fan Rob Jackson (1950-), describes a personal meeting with British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. In this particular passage, Jackson describes a computer presented to Clarke by the Hewlett Packard company in honor of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Rob Jackson, “Rendezvous with Arthur,” The Spanish Inquisition, eds. Jerry Kaufman and Suzanna Tompkins, No.6, September, 1975.

A version of this text has been digitized and is available through The FANAC Fan History Project.

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