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Started by HappyTree, December 16, 2012, 11:59:05 AM

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Funny how things from your past suddenly come back. Last night I dreamed a dream, a dream of Research Machines.



Our school had a couple of these in 1982/3 and I remember being enthralled by the Eliza AI program. There was something inherently cool and computery with the green screen that you just don't get today.

I also remember that if a program bugged out you could press reset and then get some magic kind of table of numbers. You just entered J103 somewhere and the program came back. I had no idea what was happening but it made me look like a real boffin when I saved the day in front of my history class.

How cool is a computer that needs a key to start it up?