List of fictional computers

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.

• Colossus[?], from Colossus: The Forbin Project[?]
• Dahse[?]
• Deep Thought, the computer that found the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Hactar[?], the computer that designed the cricket-ball-shaped doomsday bomb (that would destroy the universe) for the people of Krikkit[?], also in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (please correct this and add more detail - I haven't got the book handy.)
• First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer, from the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
• HAL 9000, in 2001: A Space Odyssey and sequels
• HARLIE[?], protagonist of When HARLIE was One by David Gerrold[?]
• Holly[?], on-board computer for the space ship Red Dwarf in the BBC television series of the same name.
• Mycroft Holmes[?] (Mike) (Named after the brother of Sherlock Holmes), in Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• WOPR[?] (War Operations Plan and Response), from the movie War Games
• Zen[?], Orac[?], and Slave[?], from the television series Blake's 7

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