To: Pontiac
This a remake of sorts of Colossus The Forbin Project Beat me to it! I've named my Linux workstation "Colossus", in recognition of that excellent movie. The movie actually covered only the first in a series of three books (as I recall, Colossus was eventually defeated by Martians!)
18 posted on
04/19/2014 12:03:49 AM PDT by
The Duke
("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
To: The Duke
I read the plot synopsis for the second and third books on Wikipedia. Pretty farfetched stuff even for the 1970’s.
The Martians feed Forbin a virus to program in to the successor of Colossus to end the second book.
The third book the Martians force the Earthlings to build a machine to harvest oxygen to save the Martians but Forbin uses WW I battle ships to destroy the Martian machine while the restarted Colossus tries to stop him.
Crazy stuff.
21 posted on
04/19/2014 12:37:56 AM PDT by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: The Duke
I've named my Linux workstation "Colossus" ... My dinky little netbook is Colossus with user Forbin. So far it hasn't given me any trouble.
34 posted on
04/19/2014 7:18:05 AM PDT by
kitchen
(Even the walls have ears.)
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