In 1968, Stanley Kubrick released his science fiction masterpiece, “A Space Odyssey.” The film depicted the evolution of human intelligence, from the dawn of man to the future, when a computer called HAL 9000 controlled the spacecraft.

While the film was fictional, the computer technology was not. In fact, the computer in “A Space Odyssey” was based on a real computer called the Odyssey.

The Odyssey was developed by a team of engineers at MIT in the early 1960s. The goal of the project was to create a computer that could be used for space missions, such as the Apollo …