Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by theanalyst » Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp
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Re: Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by jamesbrownuhh » Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 6:16 PM UTC

Absolute classic. The transcript of one such discussion gets quite amusing near the end. :)

Re: Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by yzzxy » Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

In Emacs,

    M-x doctor

will pull up some later incarnation of this program.

Re: Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by theanalyst » Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 7:15 PM UTC

yzzxy wrote: post #3

In Emacs, M-x doctor will pull up some later incarnation of this program.

Yep, eliza is still useful, especially if your day job involves a lot of C++ code :)

Re: Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by abecedarius » Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 8:27 PM UTC

Runs in CLISP and presumably other modern Common Lisps, using the Lisp source in the parent directory.

Re: Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by hga » Sun, Dec 21, 2014, 8:54 PM UTC

yzzxy wrote: post #3

In Emacs, M-x doctor will pull up some later incarnation of this program.

And while it seems to be broken in the copies of EMACS I just tried (stock GNU EMACS on Debian squeeze and wheezy), M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is supposed to feed it Zippy the Pinhead quotes (right now it only feeds it one stock quote about cabbage).

A lot more fun was when a professor in a class I was taking in 1978 logged into a Stanford computer, and connected PARRY, a serious attempt at simulating a paranoid schizophrenic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY), to Eliza.

Ah, reading the Wikipedia entry I see this is a famous enough concept to have been immortalized in an RFC by Vince Cerf: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439

Re: Paper Tape Images of Eliza in BBN PDP-1 Lisp

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Post by technomancy » Mon, Dec 22, 2014, 12:40 AM UTC

hga wrote: post #6

yzzxy wrote: post #3

In Emacs, M-x doctor will pull up some later incarnation of this program.

And while it seems to be broken in the copies of EMACS I just tried (stock GNU EMACS on Debian squeeze and wheezy), M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is supposed to feed it Zippy the Pinhead quotes (right now it only feeds it one stock quote about cabbage). A lot more fun was when a professor in a class I was taking in 1978 logged into a Stanford computer, and connected PARRY, a serious attempt at simulating a paranoid schiz…

Sadly legal concerns in Emacs 22 resulted in the Zippy quotations being replaced with the cabbage quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead#Appearances_...