>TURN OFF COMPUTER
"If you insist, but my programming impels me to come back on if anything
important happens."
>GIVE TAPE LIBRARY TO COMPUTER
"I might be able to take that if you had bought the extensors I asked for, but
no..."
>TELL COMPUTER
"Yes?"
>COMPUTER, HELLO
The computer turns itself on.
"Hello, astronaut."
So it was still off, and didn't turn itself on until the last command.
There are other cases where the computer speaks where it will turn itself on (even if it doesn't explicitly say so), and there seem to be other cases where it speaks without turning itself on.
So it was still off, and didn't turn itself on until the last command.
There are other cases where the computer speaks where it will turn itself on (even if it doesn't explicitly say so), and there seem to be other cases where it speaks without turning itself on.