Looking for slightly outdated sci-fi terminology

I've had a bit of trouble finding this by just searching the internet, so I decided to give the forums a go. Like the title says, I'm looking for older science fiction terms that are hardly ever used anymore, even if the concepts they refer to still are.

For exampled, I've read multiple older science fiction stories where computers are referred to as "logics", though nowadays they're really only ever called "computers", both in and out of fiction. Similarly, writers these days rarely refer to "rocket ships" or "spacemen", even when writing stories about men who travel through space in vessels propelled by rocket thrusters. Stuff like that.

To tell the truth, I'm specifically looking for outdated terms for spacecraft, particularly alien spacecraft, but I figure it can't hurt to get other terms at the same time.

Well, in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Bride of Chaotica", Tom Paris was coaching Janeway for his Captain Proton holodeck RPG:

"Remember, it's ray gun, not phaser. Imagizer, not viewscreen. Lightning field, not deflector shields. Earthlings, not Terrans. Destructo-beam, not..."

Good ones. Can't believe I forgot about "ray gun". It's in my signature and everything.

edited 8th Jan '16 7:35:18 PM by BrokenEye

Try digging through some of the known Ray Gun Gothic works. They have loads of unusual terms that are not really part of common sci-fi vernacular these days.

Taking your suggestion. Haven't got time to go through the actual works yet, but I'm browsing some of the trope pages. So far I haven't found what I'm looking for, but I did find "hyperspatial tubes", which doesn't really sound all that dated, but it certainly sounds cool. I think I might think of appropriating that at a later date.

edited 9th Jan '16 10:56:24 PM by BrokenEye

Old sci-fi can be strange to a contemporary reader, since there are lots of technologies they didn't even imagine back then that became commonplace in real-life. So you wind up with a starship's crew calculating hyperspace jumps using slide rules, mechanical analog computers, and vacuum-tube electronics.

I remember Linkara pointed out some Hypocritical Humor in that regard in the Star Trek and X-Men crossover. XD

@pwiegle Oh, I know all about that. I remember in one of the Foundation books, there's a scene where one of the characters plots a course for his personal interstellar spaceship using astro-navigation and an enormous book of star maps. Its very tedious, and exponentially more complicated then it would be in a maritime setting, but hey, it's not like anyone will ever invent a computer small enough to bring with you on a spaceship, right?

edited 10th Jan '16 6:18:10 PM by BrokenEye

Dont forget "Torchship"