In Pictures: 30 Famous Fictional Computers

[catfishtx]

Unicron from Transformers: The Movie (1984)

 

[gm0n3y]

I can't believe that Ghost in the Shell is that old. According to wikipedia, Stephen Spielberg is working on a live action remake.

 

[WickedPigeon]

This seems like a big, big oversight..
From IMDB...
The computer used in the [Lost in Space] series is the Burroughs B-205. This computer, with its flashing light console and large reel-to-reel tape drives, would appear multiple times in 1960s' motion pictures and television. Among its screen credits are The Angry Red Planet,Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,The Time Travelers,Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine,Hogan's Heroes, The Time Tunnel, Batman,Fantastic Voyage, The Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Towering Inferno, The Right Stuffand Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

 

[WickedPigeon]

The computer used in the [Lost in Space] series is the Burroughs B-205. This computer, with its flashing light console and large reel-to-reel tape drives, would appear multiple times in 1960s' motion pictures and television. Among its screen credits are The Angry Red Planet,Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,The Time Travelers,Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine,Hogan's Heroes, The Time Tunnel, Batman,Fantastic Voyage, The Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Towering Inferno, The Right Stuffand Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

 

[ibjeepr]

Sharon Apple, Macross Plus

 

[maxalge]

K.I.T.T. rocks.

 

[xi1inx]

How many of your know Colossus : the Forbin project. This is a über computer for it's time. This movie is very unratedm it's a must for it's time.
Colossus: The Forbin Project is a 1970 American science fiction thriller film. It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

 

[xi1inx]

How many of your know Colossus : the Forbin project. This is a über computer for it's time. This movie is very unratedm it's a must for it's time.
Colossus: The Forbin Project is a 1970 American science fiction thriller film. It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

 

[ibjeepr]

V'Ger from Star Trek: the Motion Picture

 

[ibjeepr]

V'Ger from Star Trek: the Motion Picture

 

[pjmelect]

What about Edgar from Electric dreams.

 

[xi1inx]

How many of your know Colossus : the Forbin project. This is a über computer for it's time. This movie is very unratedm it's a must for it's time.
Colossus: The Forbin Project is a 1970 American science fiction thriller film. It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

 

[Brian Hathaway]

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
"An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own."

 

[quixilver1]

Data from Star Trek. How could you leave him off the list. One of the few "good guy" computers in show biz and also one of the few determined to attain humanity and he gets left off the list. That's not right, Dave; that's just not right. (slow head shaking)

 

[NoCaDrummer]

I agree with the additions of billafu and Flying-Q, and the notation that laptops with software don't really count. But I'd add the computer from "The Invisible Boy", the computer from "Westworld" and "Futureworld".
Also note that the infamous computer from Star Trek (TOS) was NOT called "Duotronic", but "M5", with the circuitry being a "positronic/duotronic" system.

 

[_Cosmin_]

Did anyone count how many of them used to kill people?

 

[Yngve Kristiansen]

In Weird Science they used a Memotech MTX/FDX not an IBM computer. and you forgot MAX headroom 😉

 

[demonhorde665]

WOW holy cr-- I can't believe they mentioned the "Return of the living dead" computer !!! it was hardly even a big mention in the movie. Don't get me wrong I like that they mentioned it I love that movie,but every other movie computer they showed mad much bigger impact on the movies plot than this one had.

 

[frillybob101]

LCARS? Star TREK TNG,DS9,VOY? 1987?

 

[mindbreaker]

D.A.R.Y.L. , Johny 5, David (AI), GERTY (Moon), "Robot" (Class M-3 Model B9 from lost in space), Twiki and Dr. Theopolis (Buck Rogers), Imperious Leader or Lucifer, both memorable (first Battlestar Galactica), Kryten and Holly (Red Dwarf), and Cassandra (Red Dwarf) was a very interesting computer even if it was only one episode.

 

[mindbreaker]

And no Data (Star Trek)!

 

[rwinches]

The most important one Galaxina . Data and Borg (Like 7_of_9) from Star Trek and Doctor Who TARDIS and foes Daleks. Cylons from Battlestar Galactica

 

[Afonso Jorge Ramos]

Ghost in the shell is from 1995

 

[rodbowler]

V.I.K.I is a blatant rip-off of S.H.O.D.A.N from System Shock 1 and 2, mentioned by several others here.

 

[COLGeek]

Commander Data from ST:TNG is certainly missing from this list.