The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The SWAC plays the part of MANIAC (itself a real computer) which is used by the OSI to investigate the properties of the element and to calculate the energy required to destroy it.
The SWAC (or Standards Western Automatic Computer) was a vacuum-tube computer built in 1950 and for a short time it was the fastest computer in the world.
The SWAC plays the part of MANIAC (itself a real computer) which is used by the OSI to investigate the properties of the element and to calculate the energy required to destroy it.