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From: alan@solar.UUCP (A.LIGHT)
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Subject: Computers in SF
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 15:51:28 EST
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My favorite movie which featured computers has got to be Colosus: The Forbin
Project.  If you get a chance to see it (It's on TV pretty often) it is well
worth your time.

One point of honorable mention:  Credit has got to go to the writers of the
movie Alien.  It was one of the first movies which featured a computer where
you had to use a terminal to talk to the dammed thing!

While we are on the subject, books, movies, and TV shows usually had a name
for the computers they featured.  We all know that the computer in 2001 was
named HAL.  But how about the names of the computers in the following:

1.  The TV show "I Dream of Jeanne"
2.  Alien
3.  Rollerball
4.  Wargames
5.  The Asimov short story "The Last Question"