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The TARDIS Information system, (TV: Castrovalva) also known as the TARDIS Relational Information System, (PROSE: Castrovalva) was a searchable database discovered by the Fifth Doctor's companions Nyssa and Tegan from a readout in the control room. The Fifth and Twelfth Doctors called it the TARDIS databank.
Articles in the databank were accessed by typing in an initialism for the subject. Entering IF, for example, brought up the database's index file.
The Tremas Master had modified the Doctor's TARDIS using Block Transfer Computation as part of his plan to ensnare the Doctor in Castrovalva. At least some of the databank's contents, such as the entry on Castrovalva, would not otherwise have existed. (TV: Castrovalva)
Nyssa later consulted the databank to give a definition of Rondel, and discovered that it was anciently known as the Arc of Infinity. (TV: Arc of Infinity) Turlough read aloud a historical account from the information system, telling of Earth's collision with its sun to Tegan in order to purposefully upset her. (TV: Frontios)
Kamelion connected to the databank by cable, resulting in a damage for its systems. (TV: Planet of Fire)
The TARDIS databank could not be accessed when the TARDIS was "exhausted". (AUDIO: The Gift)
Following the destruction of Syra, the Eighth Doctor consulted the TARDIS databanks and found that it was supposed to survive for millennia. (AUDIO: The Sonomancer)
The Eleventh Doctor asked Amy Pond to use the databank to search for information on the house containing 79A and 79B Aickman Road, including plans of the building, its history and its layout. She found that 79B in fact did not exist. (TV: The Lodger)
Handles used the TARDIS databanks to identify the origin of the Question. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
The Thirteenth Doctor's TARDIS compiled TARDIS data extracts about the various foes she encountered. (PROSE: Know Your Enemy)
Behind the scenes
- For some reason, the "system" in the name of the component is not capitalised.
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It should be relocated at TARDIS Information system because can't move the page for some reason so its been duplicated and this version should be merged.
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The TARDIS information system, (TV: Castrovalva) also known as the TARDIS Relational Information System, (PROSE: Castrovalva) was a searchable database discovered by the Fifth Doctor's companions Nyssa and Tegan from a readout in the control room. The Fifth and Twelfth Doctors called it the TARDIS databank.
Articles in the databank were accessed by typing in an initialism for the subject. Entering IF, for example, brought up the database's index file.
The Tremas Master had modified the Doctor's TARDIS using Block Transfer Computation as part of his plan to ensnare the Doctor in Castrovalva. At least some of the databank's contents, such as the entry on Castrovalva, would not otherwise have existed. (TV: Castrovalva)
Nyssa later consulted the databank to give a definition of Rondel, and discovered that it was anciently known as the Arc of Infinity. (TV: Arc of Infinity) Turlough read aloud a historical account from the information system, telling of Earth's collision with its sun to Tegan in order to purposefully upset her. (TV: Frontios)
Kamelion connected to the databank by cable, resulting in a damage for its systems. (TV: Planet of Fire)
The TARDIS databank could not be accessed when the TARDIS was "exhausted". (AUDIO: The Gift)
Following the destruction of Syra, the Eighth Doctor consulted the TARDIS databanks and found that it was supposed to survive for millennia. (AUDIO: The Sonomancer)
The Eleventh Doctor asked Amy Pond to use the databank to search for information on the house containing 79A and 79B Aickman Road, including plans of the building, its history and its layout. She found that 79B in fact did not exist. (TV: The Lodger)
Handles used the TARDIS databanks to identify the origin of the Question. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
Behind the scenes
As is obvious in the picture at right, the graphics department responsible for TV: Castrovalva seemed confused about capitalisation. Technically, they called it the "TARDIS Information system", which awkwardly capitalises one word but not the other. On this wiki, we're arbitrarily choosing to go with a lowercase "information" and "system", since most other TARDIS components do not get capitalised.
According to PROSE: Know Your Enemy, the Thirteenth Doctor's TARDIS compiled TARDIS data extracts about the various foes encountered by the Doctor in Series 12.
