List of fictional computers

Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies
and in other forms of media. Fictional computers tend to be considerably
more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world.

Warning: Spoilers follow

Helpful / benevolent fictional computers

   * AC, the ultimate computer at the end of time in Isaac Asimov's short
     story The Last Question The name is derived from "automatic computer",
     via MULTIVAC, from which it is descended (see below).
   * The benevolent CC (Central Computer) in John Varley's Eight Worlds
     novels and short stories
   * The Central Computer of the city of Diaspar in Arthur C. Clarke's The
     City and the Stars
   * The ship, hub and planetary Minds in Iain M. Banks' "Culture" novels
     and stories.
   * MULTIVAC, a supercomputer which features in a number of stories by
     Isaac Asimov
   * The Machines, positronic supercomputers that manage the world in Isaac
     Asimov's short story The Evitable Conflict.
   * The computer of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek, based on the
     fictional LCARS computer architecture.

Harmful / malevolent fictional computers

   * AM from Harlan Ellison's short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
   * Colossus, from Colossus: The Forbin Project
   * HAL 9000, in 2001: A Space Odyssey (and sequels) in which the computer
     (HAL) starts murdering the crew when it discovers that they plan to
     disconnect its higher brain functions because of what they believe to
     be a problem. HAL's actions are later revealed to be the result of a
     logic conflict. Also, SAL 9000, the prototype.
   * M-5, an experimental computer featured in the Star Trek original series
     episode "The Ultimate Computer".
   * Proteus IV, the computer in the film Demon Seed
   * Skynet, the malevolent fictional world-AI of the film The Terminator

Ambivalent / neutral fictional computers

   * Deep Thought, the computer that found the Answer to Life, the Universe,
     and Everything in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy;
     Deep Thought is also the name of a non-fictional chess computer, named
     in its honor.
   * Earth, the greatest computer of all time in Douglas Adams' The
     Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, bought and run by mice to solve the
     question to the Life the Universe and Everything.
   * Eddie, the shipboard computer with artificial personality in Douglas
     Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Uncategorized

   * EPICAC XIV, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Player Piano
   * Extro, in Alfred Bester's novel The Computer Connection
   * GWB-666, the Great Western Beast of Robert Anton Wilson's Schršdinger's
     Cat trilogy, published in 1988.
   * Hactar, the computer that designed the cricket-ball-shaped doomsday
     bomb (that would destroy the universe) for the people of Krikkit, also
     in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
   * Hex, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
   * First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer, from the
     Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
   * HARLIE, protagonist of When HARLIE was One by David Gerrold
   * Holly, on-board computer for the space ship Red Dwarf in the BBC
     television series of the same name.
   * "Joe" a "logic" (that is to say, a personal computer) in Murray
     Leinster's 1946 short story A Logic Named Joe
   * Joshua, a subprogram that runs on the WOPR (War Operations Plan and
     Response), from the movie War Games
   * Mycroft Holmes (aka Mike, Adam Selene), in Robert Heinlein's The Moon
     is a Harsh Mistress (Named after the brother of Sherlock Holmes)
   * Neuromancer, from William Gibson's novel of the same name
   * The "Ox" in Frank Herbert's novel Destination: Void
   * TECT, from George Alec Effinger, various books. Notice that there are
     several computers named TECT in his novels, even though they are
     unrelated stories.
   * Wintermute, from William Gibson's novel Neuromancer
   * WOPR (War Operations Plan and Response), from the movie War Games
   * Zen, Orac, and Slave, from the television series Blake's 7

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