List of fictional computers

Propably the shortest story on the list /Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing. He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies. Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev." Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel. Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn." "Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer." He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?" The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay. "Yes, now there is a God." Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch. A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut./ (Fredric Brown, "Answer")

These related lists have some of the omissions people are pointing out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_robots_and_an...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_fict...

If someone got pics of all these it would be much better.

A few months after watching Colossus: The Forbin Project, I enrolled in a programming class, Fortran IV on the university's Burroughs mainframe. About the fifth or sixth time I showed up with my punch cards to find a notice that the computer was down for repair, I started to have doubts about the movie's plausibility.

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I skimmed the lit section and interestingly, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy seem to be one of the first personal devices. Prior to that, most of the references seem like "mainframes" with the most localized devices being ship computers.

That's my favourite list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_female_robot... for naming things.

Good list, there were a few I hadn't heard of. Most notable omission, and among my favorite fictional computers: the Sophotechs from the Golden Age trilogy by John C. Wright.

So which was the first one you came to think of when you read the title? Mine:

>Gibson, a type of supercomputer used to find oil and perform physics in Hackers (1995)

Two of my favorite stories on this list is "When Harley was One version 2.0", and "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect".

they are missing W.O.P.R. from War Games (1983)

The Borg from Star Trek TNG?