A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me to soup up the RAMs of her iMac. It was nothing special– rather an easy job, but for some reason, I couldn’t shake off a déjà vu sort of feeling as I was removing the lid and pulling out the movable rack with RAM slots.
Aha! the EVA “pod”– in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, there are a few scenes that depict the egress and ingress sequences of the pod at the bay hatch of the spaceship Discovery.
How the RAM rack comes out of iMac’s RAM bay resembles the way the pod is pushed out of the bay, and there are even a pair of levers that remind me of the pod’s robotic arms.
Well, the pod is white, globular and stored behind the circular hatch, while shape of the iMac’s RAM rack is not even close to that of the round pod, and the lid of the RAM bay is rectangular. (BTW, the corners of the lid are rounded, which as such is another “space-ish” stuff, though.)
You may not find what I’ve written above is reasonable. However, what I am talking about is just a matter of imagination. I you are lacking an imagination power, I am not about to push my hallucinative fancy against you, though.
P.S. (talking about the EVA pod and… )
There are some terminal devices that seem to be a kind of tablet PC. With their bezels and bodies so thin, those tablet PCs look more advanced than present day iPad and Android tablets. Although the iPod is the ancestor of all those iPads and iPhones, today’s iPod touch isn’t that big to be compared with the ones in the movie.
