Racter (1984)

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• gxd 2 days ago
  A relative had a Mac running Racter back in the day. I was a child but I played with it quite a bit. I found it magical. I thought I was looking at ChatGPT, but obviously it was a trick. A few years later I realized that Racter wasn't that good, but I've always wanted a "Racter that actually works"... It was a long wait, but we got it for better or worse!
• kstrauser 54 minutes ago
  I wanted this so badly on my Amiga. I didn’t understand how limited it was, and fully expected conversational computing to be right around the corner.
• roywiggins 4 hours ago
  Constructing the Other Half of The Policeman’s Beard (2021)

  https://electronicbookreview.com/publications/constructing-t...
• josefritzishere 2 days ago
  I've never heard of this before. This is wild. More here: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3351
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  • quuxplusone 2 days ago
    And that book is (naturally enough) borrowable on archive.org. :)

    https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse/page/n2...
  • buescher 2 days ago
    I first learned of it in Douglas Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas, I think.

    You can run it here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Racter_1984
• nom 1 day ago
  fun fact, there was a shareware clone of Racter released in 1991, called Claude

  https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

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  • Caracas288 34 minutes ago
    There's no way the connection isn't intentional!