Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #118 Message-ID: <8399@watarts.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 21:14:35 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8399 Posted: Fri Apr 12 21:14:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 03:46:45 EST References: <1173@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (mike upmalis) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 Keywords: starlost bova computrsinsf Summary: In article <1173@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:SE.SAMURAI@MIT-EECS writes: >To add a few more computers to your list: > >6. All of the computers in the Twilight Zone episodes (I can remember at least > two). >7. The computers which comprised Merlin in H.B. Piper's novels. >8. The robot/computer systems in Space:1999 (They're an interesting lot, if > not very realistic.) This posting is guarenteed to bring Ben Bova up to 2000+ RPM. An ill fated low budget Canadian SF show that got the Cordwainer Bird treatment from Bova and Ellison himself, The Starlost, in what I thought was a good try for what they had too work with they had the assistance of a talking computer of a defective ship, I don't recall the name, so some one else should supply it..... We live science fiction the old fashioned way, we dream it -- ~~ Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)