@RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:SE.SAMURAI@MIT-EECS (04/11/85)
From: SE.SAMURAI%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA
Just for what it's worth, the name of the computer in Alien was "Mother,"
though this was a nice, English pronunciation of a system name which was
something like MuThr. The computer in Rollerball was called Zero and used
bubble memory (real bubbles-like in water). As for Wargames, who can forget
the incredible WOPR (who cares what it stands for, it sounds just marvelous).
To add a few more computers to your list:
6. All of the computers in the Twilight Zone episodes (I can remember at least
two).
7. The computers which comprised Merlin in H.B. Piper's novels.
8. The robot/computer systems in Space:1999 (They're an interesting lot, if
not very realistic.)
James Kiso
-------mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis) (04/13/85)
In article <1173@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:SE.SAMURAI@MIT-EECS writes: >To add a few more computers to your list: > >6. All of the computers in the Twilight Zone episodes (I can remember at least > two). >7. The computers which comprised Merlin in H.B. Piper's novels. >8. The robot/computer systems in Space:1999 (They're an interesting lot, if > not very realistic.) This posting is guarenteed to bring Ben Bova up to 2000+ RPM. An ill fated low budget Canadian SF show that got the Cordwainer Bird treatment from Bova and Ellison himself, The Starlost, in what I thought was a good try for what they had too work with they had the assistance of a talking computer of a defective ship, I don't recall the name, so some one else should supply it..... We live science fiction the old fashioned way, we dream it -- ~~ Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)<University of Waterloo>