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From: mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (Larry E. Baker)
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #118: Computers in SF: names
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 13:31:47 EST
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> I know the computer in Alien was called "Mother". We've got one here
> at MIT named after it; people never understand.

> And the Wargames computer was WOPR, wasn't it? I should know
> Asimov's computer's name, but it's been a long time. Maybe it was
> Multivac? I don't remember computers in "I Dream of Jeannie" or
> Rollerball at all, though.
						- John

Asimov's computer was Multivac.  If I remember correctly, the computer
in Rollerball was 'Zero.'  (I distinctly remember the 'head' computer
scientist [computer priest?] losing it and kicking the thing when it
wouldn't do what he wanted)

Just a 'bit' of trivia...

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