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-computer
https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/heath.analog.1956.102646297.pdf
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/May2016_Heathkit_Restoration
On 3/8/2023 1:39 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Mar 8, 2023, at 2:37 PM, <dave.g4...@gmail.com> <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote:
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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 ago
about ChatGPT, which pointed out that it's basically an overgrown version of
the famous ELIZA program from the 1960s.
paul
