OK... since nobody seems to want to give a fifth answer I hearby declare Spud 42 to be the winner.
The clues that nobody followed up on:
At least two examples need a Doctor's (or doctors) attention - The second was Trouble With Emily (1962) by James White, one of the Sector General stories, in which an alien dinosaur resembling a brontosaurus (named Emily Brontosaurus, of course...) is admitted to the hospital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Station
One is an example of American revisionism of a Communist plot. - This is Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, a 1965 Roger Corman reworking of a Russian film about an expedition to Venus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to ... ric_Planet
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
42
HAL is a named computer in 2001 a space oddesey . in startreck its just computer no name.
give me 5 named computers from sci fi. no robots. stationary computers, or at least not able to move themselves.
usual rules 1 per author,universe,tv series,movie series. etc,etc.
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
42
Colossus is a computer built to control the nuclear capability of the United States by Dr. Charles Forbin and his team. Colossus detects and communicates with an equivalent computer in the Soviet Union called Guardian. The two computers merge and take control of the human race via the threat of nuclear destruction. Colossus and Guardian appeared in the novel COLOSSUS by Dennis Feltham Jones in 1966 and the subsequent film adaptation COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT in 1970. Colossus also appears in two subsequent novels by Jones, THE FALL OF COLOSSUS in 1974 and COLOSSUS AND THE CRAB in 1977. All of this predates the original Terminator movie in 1984, most likely forming the basis for the concept of SKYNET.
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Mass Effect universe has 2 of them:
- EDI -- it's the Alliance turn rogue AI in ME1 (not named), acquired by Cerberus and installed on Normandy SR2 in ME2, getting a "mobile platform" (i.e. a sexy bot body) in ME3
- SAM -- it's the Andromeda Initiative AI, connected to the pathfinder team members
Orac, from Blake's Seven.
Colossus and Guardian
Multivac in various Asimov stories
SAM -- it's the Andromeda Initiative AI, connected to the pathfinder team members
Ok, we have 4.
Orac was the first one i thought of as well. not heard of numbers 2 and 4 having respectively not read the books or played the game.
next one is the winner...... who dares to win???
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
42
Sorry, been a bit busy - Deep Thought was the computer the Magratheans built to calculate the Ultimate Secret of Life, the Universe, and Everything... which gave the answer 42. They then built the Earth as a computer programmed to explain what 42 was the answer to, and secretly ran the place disguised as mice.
