I remember the "Graphic Omniscient Device" which HARLIE-- Human Analogue Robot Life Input Equivalents-- which, IIRC, was base-12 logic (somehow) rather than decimal... much less binary.
(chuckles) -soup On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:01 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, a reference to the Holmes IV. I'm not sure how many could cope >> with a mainframe with a personality and sense of humor... >> >> (And, yes, I recall reading "The Adoloescence of P-1".) >> >> -soup >> >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:41 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > > almost like a Mycroft system "owned" by the Lunar Authority, don't >>>> > > it?). >>>> > Space 1999? Wow. >>>> Pretty sure that is Heinlein, "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" reference.... >>> >>> Indeed. One episode of Space:1999 has an oblique reference to Mycroft, but >>> I bet you're right. >>> >>> Never post while taking Benadryl. Summer pollen should be considered a >>> biohazard. 8-( >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >>> visit >>> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >>> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> >> >> >> -- >> John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot >> com >> MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows >> "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; >> Regardless >> of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, >> somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > Hello! > How many of us have read the book, "When HARLIE was one"? It is an > excellent book, and the author is someone we should all know (of) by > now. He and the author of the book referenced were good friends. It > happens that HARLIE had an annoying sense of humor that was similar to > the one shown by the system from that book. > > Incidentally the input-output devices were in fact magnetic storage > typewriters. > > Group let us not forget Watson, the system that IBM came up with, and > won a Jeopardy game. He is a rather capable system, and is nearly as > capable as most people, and also has a good sense of humor. And may > even be consulted by his designers for further updates. > > We are rapidly approaching the technology ideas suggested by science fiction. > ----- > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
