Are you talking about the “Thinking Machines” company that shut down in 1994? Took me some digging to figure it out, doesn’t seem well-known enough to be the reason - it’s just a nice (and relatively obvious) name.
“We are building a machine that will be proud of us” was their corporate motto. And that was in 1983.
One of those Machines is on view at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Back then, they could be ordered in “Darth Vader Black”, no kidding here. You can also see a couple of them (the CM-5) as the stereotypical supercomputer in the original Jurassic Park.
More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporatio...