Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!coyote!jmh From: jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.ai.edu Subject: Re: Looking for "Racter" and "Parry" mad exper-system Keywords: racter parry eliza doctor Message-ID: <1991May6.022811.5368@coyote.datalog.com> Date: 6 May 91 02:28:11 GMT References: Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ Lines: 28 In article marx@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (Michael Marx) writes: [stuff related to Eliza deleted] >Now I am looking for 2 other program, both similar to "Doctor" and >"Eliza", they are: > >1) Parry (sp?) - A paranoid person. >2) Racter - Basically a story teller, but an 'expert system' with >a personality, more amusing than educating. >Please advice where I can find those 2 systems, If I'm not mistaken, Racter was a commercial program released around 1984 - or at least the PeeCee version has that as its copyright date. I have a moldy copy of Racter running around, but without the long-lost docs it's rather hard to do more than muck around with the databases and watch it get repetitious. > >Thanks, > >Michael M. Marx marx@hujinix.bitnet >Jerusalem, Israel marx@shum.huji.ac.il -- | John M. Hughes | "...unfolding in consciousness at the | | datalog.com!moondog!jmh | deliberate speed of pondering." - Daniel Dennet | | jmh%coyote@noao.edu |--------------------------------------------------| | jmh%moondog@datalog.com | P.O.Box 43305, Tucson, AZ 85733 602-624-8008 |