Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!bellcore!copp
From: copp@bellcore.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Eliza, Doctor, Parry, Ractor, etc, ...
Message-ID: <231@bellcore.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 11:00:12 EST
Article-I.D.: bellcore.231
Posted: Fri Mar  6 11:00:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 11:16:54 EST
References: <310@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: copp@bellcore.UUCP (David H. Copp)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Lines: 22
Keywords: Eliza, Ractor, Parry, Doctor, software, literature.


"The Policeman's Beard is Half Contructed,"
authored by Racter (with a little help from
William Chamberlain), Warner Books Inc., 666 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY  10103, USA.  First printing Oct 1984.

This is a new publisher.  You may have to write directly to
Warner Books, P.O. Box 690, New York, NY  10019, USA.
They ask for a check for the list price ($9.95) plus
$0.75 per order and $0.50 per copy.

This is not a technical book.  It tells you very little about
Racter.  It is an amusing addition to your coffee table.

Martin Gardner (or was it Hofstedder?) devoted two or
three pages to Racter about three years ago (Scientific American).
Good article.  The program itself can be purchased, IBM PC format,
for about $75--see the SA article.)
-- 
				David H. Copp
				(201) 829-4337
				bellcore!copp