Game Show Computers
Introduction
A treasury of acronyms and monickers given to computers that appear as tools or characters on game shows.
Listing
- Brainchild - Beryl (Brainchild's Electronic Random Year and Letter indicator)
- Catchword - Bryan
- Chain Letters - Wordsworth (because he'd tell you what the word's worth)
- The Crystal Maze - "Computer" for series 1-4, reprogrammed and renamed as Barbara for series 5 & 6.
- Countdown - CECIL (Countdown's Electronic Calculator In Leeds)
- Cyberzone - Thesp
- Family Fortunes - Mr Babbage
- 50/50 - Flynn
- First Class - Eugene
- I Packed My Bag - RASTUS (Random Alphabetical Sequential Tri-tuned Uni-directional Selector)
- Love at First Sight - Cupid
- Magic Micro Mission - Prune
- The National Lottery Big Ticket - Bernie
- Push the Button - DAVE (Dynamic Audio Visual Endgame)
- Raise the Roof - ERIC (Electronic Random Inquisitor's Computer)
- Space Cadets (1) - AL (based on HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey)
- Spy School - BEN (Biologically Enhanced Network)
- System 93 - Herman the Computer
- Virtually Impossible - Codsby
- Who Dares Sings! - SAM (Sound Analysis Machine)