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Racter (1984) (ubu.com)
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!
roywiggins 31 minutes 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
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 days 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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