stone (02/16/83)
Lots of computers that aren't on networks manage to aquire a name anyway,
if they have enough charisma and character. We called the old DEC PDP-8
in high school 'Stupid' in moments of affection, for instance. Rensselaer
Polytech has an IBM 3033 nicknamed "Myron", somewhat after Sherlock Holmes'
genius brother Mycroft.
A friend has an Imsai S-100 mainframe named "Clumsai", and another has a
Cromemco Z-2 dubbed "Cro-Magnon". But the strangest is a Z-80 machine
called Ariel, after the sprite in Shakespeare's 'Tempest'. It boots up
with a quote from The Tempest, and it was going to control a robot to
be called "Caliban" ...
-- Larry Stone