From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!stone
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: How do You spell 'computer'?
Article-I.D.: yale-com.903
Posted: Tue Feb 15 21:46:36 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 12:28:21 1983

Lots of computers that aren't on networks manage to aquire a name anyway,
if they have enough charisma and character.  We called the old DEC PDP-8
in high school 'Stupid' in moments of affection, for instance.  Rensselaer
Polytech has an IBM 3033 nicknamed "Myron", somewhat after Sherlock Holmes'
genius brother Mycroft.  

A friend has an Imsai S-100 mainframe named "Clumsai", and another has a
Cromemco Z-2 dubbed "Cro-Magnon".  But the strangest is a Z-80 machine
called Ariel, after the sprite in Shakespeare's 'Tempest'.  It boots up
with a quote from The Tempest, and it was going to control a robot to
be called "Caliban" ...
                                      
                                 -- Larry Stone