This Real-life Supercomputer Inspired HAL 9000, the Evil AI From '2001: A Space Odyssey'

In the 1970s, Moffett Federal Airfield, a government-operated military base that served as a test-bed for new technologies, had a high-security underground bunker. To enter, employees would have to walk through concrete hallways, past eerie metal doors and some guards. Inside, it was cold; the AC was always cranking. "It was straight out of 007 -- Dr. Evil kind of stuff," recalls Francis Jeffrey, who worked there at the time as an engineer. This subterranean lab was home to one of the world's first supercomputers, the ILLIAC.