This is a story of a group of engineers that decide to place the industry's largest possible computer ---one with 6 Brontobytes of memory--on board one of the latest Unmanned Ariel Drone. The result is both interesting and comic....in some places. ( The unit wants to be called "Hal" after the computer in the movie Space Odyssey 2001") Hal starts doing its own missions and on the second one--unauthorized by command, it takes out an Afghan oil transport truck. When command transmits to the UAV "You just took out a friendly",..it responds with ....."OOPS. This one, I have found is as fun to write as it is to read. Computer wizards will take me apart for the terminology and process methods that I have the big computer programed for but,,..that's all part of fiction IMHO.
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