This page is intended to be a list of computers in fiction and science fiction.
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.
Cosmic AC, the ultimate computer at the end of time in Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question" (The name is derived from "analog computer"; see also AC's ancestor, Multivac).
Box, a small, box shaped computer from Gerry Anderson's Space Police
The benevolent CC (Central Computer) in John Varley's Eight Worlds novels and short stories
Holly, and Queeg 500, the on-board computer and back-up computer (respectively) for the space ship Red Dwarf in the BBC television series of the same name.
Tim, from The Tomorrow People, is a computer able to telepathically converse with those humans who have developed psionic abilities, and assist with precise teleporting over long distances.
Vox, a holographic computer in the 2002 movie version of The Time Machine.
Zen, the somewhat aloof computer of the Liberator in Blake's 7.
ZORAC, the shipboard computer aboard the ancient spacecraft in The Gentle Giants of Ganymede and the related series by James P. Hogan. Also in the same series is VISAR (the network that manages the daily affairs of the Giants) as well as JEVEX, the main computer performing the same function for the offshoot human colony.
Harmful / malevolent fictional computers
Alex7000, from the two-parter episode Doomsday is Tomorrow of the TV show The Bionic Woman. It was programmed to set off a nuclear holocaust if anyone tested any more nukes. Clearly meant in homage to Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr Strangelove.
ANGEL 1 and ANGEL 2, Ancillary Guardians of Environment and Life, shipboard 'Freewill' computers from James Follett'sEarthsearch series. Also Solaria D, Custodian, Sentinal, and Earthvoice.
Arius from William T Quick's novels Dreams of Flesh and Sand, Dreams of Gods and Men, and Singularities.
Blaine the Mono, from Stephen King'sThe Dark Tower. A control system for the City of Lud and monorail service. Also Little Blaine and Patricia.
BOSS (Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor), from Doctor Who ("The Green Death")
CABAL (Computer Assisted Bio-engineered Artificial Life-form) the computer of Nod in Westwood'sCommand and Conquer 3.
Comp-U-Comp, a super computer from an episode of the Dilbert TV show. In the episode, Dilbert must face off against Comp-U-Comp when a clerical error results in his not getting the computer he ordered.
Durandal, one of three A.I.s onboard the U.E.S.C. Marathon
FATE, the computer that determines how events span out from Chrono Cross.
HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a fictional mission computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey that fatally malfunctions when burdened with the secret purpose of the mission.
Kilg%re, an alien AI that can exist in most electrical circuitry, The Flash
M5, an experimental computer featured in the Star Trek original series episode "The Ultimate Computer".
The Machine, a computer built to specifications received from an alien intelligence beyond our galaxy in the novel A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle.
The Computer from West End Games Paranoia role playing game.
Earth, the greatest computer of all time in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, bought and run by mice to find the Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Googleplex Star Thinker in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.
Eddie, the shipboard computer with artificial personality in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The Engine, a mechanical computer featured in Gulliver's Travels. This is considered to be the first fictional computer.
Ghostwheel, from Roger Zelazny's second series of Amber novels. A computer with esoteric environmental requirements, designed to apply data-processing techniques to alternate realities called "Shadows".
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.
Loki 7281, from Roger Zelazny's short story by the same name, in which his home computer wants to take over the world.
The Magi, a trinity of computers individually named Melchior, Balthasar and Casper, from Neon Genesis Evangelion
TECT, from George Alec Effinger, various books. Notice that there are several computers named TECT in his novels, even though they are unrelated stories.
The most influential fictional automaton of the early nineteenth century was Olympia, who dances perfectly, always focuses her gaze adoringly on her lover, and exclaims "Oh, Oh!" in response to his every utterance in E. Hoffman's "The Sandman" (1816).
The standard fictionalcomputer thus became the brain of a robot, usually conceptualized as a mechanical man--or woman--made of metal.
Because the supercomputers of the 1940s and 1950s were gigantic, their fictional descendants were commonly imagined to be colossal machines, sometimes concentrating the computational functions of a whole society in a single centralized mechanical intelligence.
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