auto-creating topics?

[Gadgetman!]

Greetings!

I have a website, listing my collection of vintage computers, and I would like to auto-create a new topic whenever I add a computer to my site.
I also need the function to return the ID of the topic so that it can be stored amongst the computer details so that the topic can be displayed at the bottom of the page for each computer. (The display part I understand is easy to implement with SSI.php )

Is this possible?