On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 2:16:02 PM UTC-5 Leroy Jones wrote: Oh how cool! There must be something about a small clear clock case with a set of 4-digit thumbwheels on the front. Something that gets into a person, and the only way to work with it is make it that way. Nice work! What all does "Colossus" do?
'COLOSSUS' was my wall mount computer that used a scrolling led sign to display things like cpu load, temps, disk io, etc. Based on the infamous evil computer in Colossus: The Forbin Project <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project> ;-) I think I was ahead of my time - I also programmed a 'chatbot' (not AI - this was the late 90's and the iPhone had not even been released yet) that took verbal input from a hacked Dragon Naturally Speaking program and responded with a synthetic voice and display... It was like Siri before there was a Siri. The computer responses were somewhat canned - it used lookup tables and operated similar to the famous ELIZA program, but it was still amazing for the time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/cd29478d-582a-4267-904c-20f2b410ce37n%40googlegroups.com.
