On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:49 AM Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk@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-computer > > 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: > > > >> On Mar 8, 2023, at 2:37 PM, <dave.g4...@gmail.com> < > dave.g4...@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 > ago about ChatGPT, which pointed out that it's basically an overgrown > version of the famous ELIZA program from the 1960s. > > > > paul > > > >
