In Pictures: 30 Famous Fictional Computers

[heimtun]

What about "Colossus" from Colossus: The Forbin Project? Great SiFi movie with a computer that takes over.

 

[TechnoD]

Hmmm... a few more star trek legacies could have been included (Borg, Data, LCARS, etc)

 

[RobAC]

I actually enjoyed this. And the additions by other users for inclusion too. I had forgotten about most of those.

Skynet still gets my vote for world ending badass AI.

 

[Attap]

I always thought that HAL was just a simple, single shift Caesar Cypher for IBM. Arthur C, Clarke was very impressed by a talking/singing IBM computer - Daisy, Daisy!

 

[Michal Dobrodenka]

Where is Red Dwarf - Holly ?

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

 

[XANDRO]

OK... ...going from the examples given and the inclusion of "robots" or "androids" like C3PO, I go for the top 40... ...here are the remaining 10:
31 - Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still
32 - R2D2 has been totally over looked
33 - Gunslinger (Yul Brynner) from Westworld (1973)
34 - B9 - Jupiter 2's environmental control robot from Lost in Space
35 - Computer says no - Little Brittain TV Show
36 - Alpha Computer from Space 1999 TV Show
37 - Dexter from Perfect Match TV Show
38 - Bender from Futurama
39 - ENCOM Mainframe and the MCP
40 - Spacial Operating Environment Interface from Minority Report
How is that? Can you add to this list?
Xandro

 

[XANDRO]

Some of the choices for a top 30 seem weird in that a bit of fake software is justified in making a laptop 'famous', and there are some glaring omissions as well.
How about the female humaniform robot Futura from the black and white movie 'Metropolis' from the 1920's, GORT from 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' (the original 1950's), or the Library computer 'Prime Radient' from Azimov's 'Foundation' series.
Still more: The Great Machine and Robby from 'Forbidden Planet', NDR-113 (Andrew) from 'Bicentennial Man', Zen and ORAC from 'Blakes 7', Twiki and Dr Theopolis from 'Buck Rogers...', Ziggy from 'Quantum Leap', Proteus IV from 'Demon Seed', Max (compliance!) from 'Flight of the Navigator', Huey, Louey and Dewey from 'Silent Running', Johnny-5 from 'Short Circuit', T-800 and T-1000 from 'Terminator' series, Sonny from 'I-Robot',

With your list and mine - we have added quite an interesting lot, haven't we?

 

[Tuishimi]

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

I was going to say LCARS but isn't that an OS, not the actual hardware?

 

[ik242]

Johnny Number 5 didn't make the list...?

 

[XANDRO]

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

I was going to say LCARS but isn't that an OS, not the actual hardware?

Yes... ...yes but an OS needs the hardware... ...maybe we just need to look further and find a name for it. I'll start my search, OK?

 

[Sam Hain]

Some of the article pics were, well... Robots, to be specific, not actual computers... My personal pick to add in lieu of a robot be, would be "Holly" from the TV show "Red Dwarf".

 

[crazylion]

what about the supercomputer in superman 3

 

[f-gomes]

I know this kind of article is prone to a lot of subjective discussion, but hey - the entire thing absolutely pointless if you leave out the computer from Electric Dreams. Edgar was in love with its owner girfriend, great 80's movie and unforgettable 80's pop song (Together in Electric Dreams)

 

[koolaidkitten]

Where is brainiac from superman?

 

[digiex]

There seems to have a problem with the navigation, when you click the next button, the 3 previous picture is displayed. Using Firefox 21.0.
COS(Central Operating System), The X-files series, season 1, episode 7, " Ghost in the Machine"

 

[rc_cola91]

What about Luke's targeting computer? He may have switched off that garbage but the scene is memorable nonetheless.

 

[Tom Kenney]

"The Old Man In The Cave" (Twilight Zone)
"The Billion Dollar Brain" (3rd Harry Palmer movie)
The traffic control computer from "The Italian Job" (Original)

 

[fluxworld]

You Forgot the Computer in IROBOT with Will Smith that controls all of the robots :O

 

[punk4evr]

I forget the movie title now, but the one that scared me the most was the computer that impregnated a women to conceive a computer/human hybrid. It's a old movie, but still, I think deserves some credit.

 

[Wombat_VC]

What!? No Edgar?

 

[makitso]

I am surprised you missed Colossus: The Forbin Project

 

[mishi93]

Where the hell is Zordon?!😀

 

[mishi93]

Where the hell is Zordon?!😀

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Duotronic was not the computer system, tool, err Dave. It was a description of the technology, perhaps the circuitry.

The computer was the M5, it had a name.