RALF the computer - Talking home computer seen on the detective adventure WHIZ KIDS/CBS/1983-84. Ralf was owned by Richie Adler (Matthew Laborteaux), a computer hacker genius who attended Canyon High School with his buddies Hamilton "Ham" Parker (Todd Porter), Jeremy Saldino (Jeffrey Jacquet) and Alice Tyler (Andrea Elson). An amateur detective, Richie often used RALF to track down information by creatively accessing a variety of private and government computer data banks.