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Subject: Ref. Computers in SF
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 17:44:06 EDT
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From: William M. York <York@SCRC-QUABBIN.ARPA>

    Date: Sun, 28 Apr 85 10:53:36 EDT
    From: Richard G. Turner, PERI-ET, USARI  <rturner@usadhq2>

    The story was a series of vignettes taking part at various points in
    man's history, starting with the computer era and ending (or
    re-beginning) after the universe had run down from entropy. All that
    was left at that time was a computer which had evolved to the point
    that it existed as pure energy.

This story is Assimov's "The Last Question".  Coincidentally, several
recent messages to the digest discussed the names the computer had at
various stages of evolution during the story, from Multivac through
Cosmic AC and finally just plain AC.  "And AC said. . ."