Computer Hall of Fame
Some of my favorite famous computers, fictional and real.
HAL 9000 is the sentient on-board computer of the Discovery One spacecraft in Arthur C. Clarke's fictional Space Odyssey saga. HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is an artificial intelligence which interacts with the crew. |
Enemy mothership from Independence Day. The improbable odds rival the New and Improved National Debt (a) creating a program to work on alien computers, combined with (b) transmitting that virus to the mothership, and it causing (c) catastrophic failure of the ship. | ||
EVE is the computer-generated female entertainer from Megazone 23. She came before Wall-E's EVE, but after the Eve in Genesis 2. |
QWERTY is the helpful PC who brings up a bible verse to summarize the lesson from each Veggie Tales video. | ||
Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, a cyborg sent back in time as an assassin. |
Lieutenant Commander Data, played by Brent Spiner, is an android in Star Trek: The Next Generation. | ||
A whole lot of famous alien robots came from the Transformers TV series. (Yes, this one does remind you of Macross, doesn't it?) |
"Kitt is an artificially intelligent electronic computer module installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robotic automobile: the original KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) as a 1982 Pontiac Firebird." | ||
These guys are probably the most famous computers of all time. R2D2 and C3PO of Star Wars, but you knew that. |
Disney/Pixar's Wall-E. | ||
ENIAC was employed in fighting The War by developing predictions for trajectories of shells and bombs, and in calculations for the hydrogen bomb. (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) |
Okay, she doesn't qualify to be among my favorite, but she deserves honorable mention. Rosie from The Jetsons. |