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welcome to Cena top five for each time we meet we count down another hot cnet list I'm Tom Merritt it's time to redress a great wrong now there have been many lists to top robots from movies and many lists of top computer movies but never a list of the top movie computers at least that I could find until now let's count down the top-5 movie computers at number 5 Colossus from Colossus the Forbin project a Defense Department supercomputer joins forces with its Soviet counterpart and becomes sentient this is the voice of world oh baby and blade or disobey and die now that's where the semantic web stuff you hear about is headed also funny note that's the movie studios payroll computer coming in at number for the enterprise computer the voice of May Jill Barrett counted down countless self-destructs responded to requests and announced Dec numbers in the elevator Scotty even adorably mistook a primitive Mac for his beloved computer hello computer up to number three master control program from Tron technically software I guess but the software on the income mainframe mcp tried to eliminate the Tron security program as well as the digitized version of programmer Kevin Flynn end of line sliding into number two whopper wopr war operation plan response computer featured in the movie wargames would you like to play a game have you ever run into opera on the net you know what you can do just trick it out of global thermonuclear war by playing tic-tac-toe before we get to number one let's take a look at the movie computers that didn't quite make the top five and thanks to my colleagues and the folks on Twitter for the suggestions good stuff all right let's get to our number one the top dog in the dog pound of movie computers it became operational on January 12 1992 at number one it's the Hal 9000 the heuristic we programmed algorithmic computer from 2001 a Space Odyssey at glowing red eye that beautiful singing voice that keen ability to know when you need to take a stress pill and lie down all excellent reasons to put how in the top spot along with the fact that we were kind of afraid of getting blown out of the airlock if we didn't so many evil computers on the list you don't see any of them getting a job at Google willya well that's it for this edition of Cena top 5 thanks for watching I'm Tom Merritt see you next time I feel much better now I really do