Editing List of fictional computers (section)

===1980s===
* '''[[AIVAS]]''' (Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System), from [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' books (1980s to present)
* '''''[[Golem XIV]]''''', from [[Stanisław Lem]]'s novel of the same name (1981)
* '''TECT''' (originally '''TECT in the name of the Representative'''), the world-ruling computer in [[George Alec Effinger]]'s novel ''The Wolves of Memory'' (1981)
* '''VALIS''' (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), an alien orbital satellite around a Nixon-era earth, from the [[Philip K. Dick]] novel ''[[VALIS]]''. Only two novels out of an intended three-book trilogy were ever completed by the author (1981) 
* '''[[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Hactar|Hactar]]''', the computer that designed the cricket-ball-shaped doomsday bomb (that would destroy the universe) for the people of Krikkit, in [[Douglas Adams]]'s ''[[Life, the Universe and Everything]]'' (1982){{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}
* '''Shirka''', the ''Odyssey''{{'}}s main computer in ''[[Ulysses 31]]'' (1981–1982)
* '''SAL 9000''', the counterpart of [[HAL 9000]] in ''[[2010: Odyssey Two]]'' (1982)
* '''Kendy''', the AI autopilot on board the seeder-ramship ''Discipline'' in the novels ''[[The Integral Trees]]'' and ''[[The Smoke Ring (novel)|The Smoke Ring]]'' by [[Larry Niven]] (Originally 1983)
* '''BC''' (Big Computer) which is also possibly God, in [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]]'s ''[[Millennium (novel)|Millennium]]'' novel (1983)
* '''(unnamed intelligence)''', in [[John Varley (author)|John Varley]]'s "[[Press Enter]] _", an intelligence that has evolved on NSA's computer network
* '''Apple Eve''', a fictional [[Apple, Inc.]], [[wordprocessing]]-oriented computer system in ''[[Warday]]'' (1984).<ref>{{cite book|title=Warday|first1=Whitley|last1=Strieber|first2=James|last2=Kunetka|page=430|year=1984}}</ref>
* '''Cyclops''' and '''Millichrome''', sentient computers built just before a series of disasters destroyed the American government and society in ''[[The Postman]]'' by [[David Brin]] (1984)
* '''Loki 7281''', from [[Roger Zelazny]]'s short story by the same name, in which a home computer wants to take over the world (1984)
* '''Neuromancer''' and '''Wintermute''', from [[William Gibson]]'s novel ''[[Neuromancer]]'' (1984)
* '''Valentina''', the artificial intelligence in the novel ''Valentina: Soul in Sapphire'' by Joseph H. Delaney and Marc Stiegler (1984)
* '''Teletraan I''', intelligent starship computer inside the Autobots' Ark spaceship that awakens the robot, from [[The Transformers (TV series)|Transformers]] animated television series, (1984)
* ''' Edgar''', from [[Steve Barron]]'s film ''[[Electric Dreams (film)|Electric Dreams]]'' (1984)
* '''[[Merlin (The Chronicles of Amber)#Ghostwheel|Ghostwheel]]''', built by Merlin in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Amber]]''. A computer with esoteric environmental requirements, designed to apply data-processing techniques to alternate realities called "Shadows" (1985)
* '''Mandarax''' and '''Gokubi''', from [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s novel ''[[Galápagos (novel)|Galápagos]]'' (1985)
* '''Tokugawa''', from ''Cybernetic Samurai'' by [[Victor Milán]] (1985)
* '''The City of Mind''', from [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[Always Coming Home]]''
* '''Com Pewter''', a character from [[Piers Anthony]]'s [[Xanth|Xanth series]]. First appearing in ''[[Golem in the Gears]]'' (1986 onward), it is a machine which can alter its local reality.
* '''[[Jane (Ender's Game)|Jane]]''', from [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Ender's Game (series)|Ender's Game]]'' series, Ender's companion. She lives in the philotic network of the ansibles. (1986)
* '''Master System''', in [[Jack L. Chalker]]'s ''The Rings of the Master'' series (1986–1988)
* '''Fine Till You Came Along''' and other ship, hub and planetary '''[[Mind (The Culture)|Minds]]''', in [[Iain M. Banks]]' ''[[The Culture|Culture]]'' novels and stories (1987–2000)
* '''The Quark II''', in [[Douglas Adams]]'s ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' (1987)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency|last=Adams|first=Douglas|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1987|isbn=978-1-4767-8299-7|location=New York|pages=85}}</ref>
* '''Abulafia''', Jacopo Belbo's computer in the novel ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' by [[Umberto Eco]] (1988)
* '''Arius''', from [[William T Quick]]'s novels ''Dreams of Flesh and Sand'', ''Dreams of Gods and Men'', and ''Singularities'' (1988 onward)
* '''Continuity''', from [[William Gibson]]'s novel ''[[Mona Lisa Overdrive]]'' (1988)
* '''GWB-666''', the "Great Western Beast" of [[Robert Anton Wilson]]'s ''[[Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy]]'' (1988)
* '''Lord Margaret Lynn''', or "Maggie", the AI extrapolative computer on Tocohl Susumo's trader ship in the novel ''Hellspark'', by [[Janet Kagan]] (1988)
* '''The TechnoCore''', a band of AIs striving for the "Ultimate Intelligence", in [[Dan Simmons]]' novel ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' (1989)
* '''Eagle''', from [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[Rendezvous with Rama|Rama]]'' series (1989)
* '''LEVIN''' (Low Energy Variable Input Nanocomputer), from [[William Thomas Quick]]'s novels ''Dreams of Gods and Men'', and ''Singularities'' (1989)