 When Simones costars for "Eternity Forever" with whom she conducts  a meeting via telephone introduce themselves, most of them have  computer software/hardware manufacturers names: Corel, Claris  (Simone worked with her cousin Dell), Hewlett, Lotus, and the two  that arent companies: Mac and Hal, the HAL 9000 from  _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv).