Honestly, I check this forum almost daily and I thought how we've all neglected to chat. I'm as guilty of that as anyone. I spent my summer doing automobile projects and staying busy with work and family stuff. I've been writing some C code on the Altair too, and plan to post when I am done. I just haven't made as much progress as I had hoped. Been too busy. Will post about a project I've been doing soon.
But I digress...
All the buzz these days about chatbots makes me always mindful of the original chatbot - Eliza - available of course, on our beloved Altairs. It's still fun for me to run it every now and then and chat. I modified my copy to not be so "shrinky" and instead drive discussions in other ways that I think are a little more fun. But it's still Weizenbaum's baby.
Eliza doesn't grab its knowledgebase from the internet, of course, but I like it that way. Reminds me of the time when our Altairs were born.
If you don't have a copy of Eliza, download the archive at the link below. It has Eliza and a bunch of other BASIC stuff.
- BASIC programs for the Altair and other systems with Microsoft BASIC