Editing List of fictional computers (section)

===Before 1950===
* '''[[The Engine]]''', a kind of mechanical information generator featured in [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''. This is considered to be the first description of a fictional device that in any way resembles a computer.<ref>{{cite news |first=Eric A. |last=Weiss |title=Jonathan Swift's Computing Invention |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4640396 |quote=In 1726 Jonathan Swift published a description of a wonderful machine, made of equal parts of ... |work=[[IEEE]] |year=1985 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=164–165 |access-date=2010-01-26 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.1985.10017 }}</ref> (1726) 
* '''The Machine''' from [[E. M. Forster]]'s short story "[[The Machine Stops]]" (1909)
* '''The Brain''' from [[Lionel Britton]]’s ''Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth'' (1930).
* '''The Government Machine''' from [[Miles J. Breuer]]'s short story "Mechanocracy" (1932). 
* '''The Brain''' from [[Laurence Manning]]'s novel ''[[The Man Who Awoke]]'' (1933). 
* '''The Machine City''' from [[John W. Campbell]]'s short story "[[Twilight (Campbell short story)|Twilight]]" (1934).
* '''The Mechanical Brain''' from [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[Swords of Mars]]'' (1934).
* The ship's navigation computer in "[[Misfit (short story)|Misfit]]", a short story by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1939)
* '''The Games Machine''', a vastly powerful computer that plays a major role in [[A. E. van Vogt]]'s ''[[The World of Null-A]]'' (serialized in ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'' in 1945)
* '''The Brain''', a supercomputer with a childish, human-like personality appearing in the short story "[[Escape!]]" by [[Isaac Asimov]] (1945)
* '''Joe''', a "logic" (that is to say, a personal computer) in [[Murray Leinster]]'s short story "[[A Logic Named Joe]]" (1946)