8 Mar
2023
8 Mar
'23
8:13 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:49 AM Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Don't forget that Heathkit had analog home
computer kits in the 50's and
60's
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/restoring-the-heathkit-es-400-co…
https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/heath.analog.1956.102646297.pdf
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/May2016_Heathkit_Restoration
To say nothing of the Digi-Comp 1, the MINIVAC 601/6010, the
GENIAC/BRAINIAC, and of course, SIMON (1950-51).
Sellam
On 3/8/2023 1:39 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
ago about ChatGPT, which pointed out that it's basically an overgrown
version of the famous ELIZA program from the 1960s.
> On Mar 8, 2023, at 2:37 PM, <dave.g4ugm(a)gmail.com> <
dave.g4ugm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> Computer Games are almost as old as (Turing Complete) Computers. Alan
Turing
> insisted that the Manchester/Ferranti MK1 had
a Random Number generator.
> Christopher Strachey wrote a tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses to the
> English) program which displayed its output in patterns on the MK1
screen.
In 1951
he wrote a checkers/draughts program for the Mk1.
He also wrote the "love letters" program.....
Along those lines, I was amused to see a letter to the editor a few days
paul