Racter

Racter is one of William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter finished in 1984 after five years of work program , which in free association written grammatically correct texts. It is able to respond to input from the user. After Racter initially belonged to the developer Inrac Corporation , the rights later changed to Mindscape Inc. About Racter there was a special exhibition in 1983 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York .

A book written with the help of Racter, The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed , was published in March 1984. The preface reads: With the exception of this introduction, the writing in this book was all done by computer. (With the exception of this introduction, the entire book was written by a computer.) For the production of the book, the program code written in BASIC was used on a Z80 computer with 64kb RAM.

With the program Claude (published 1991) there is a further developed shareware version of the program.

See also

• ELIZA
• SHRDLU

literature

• Racter, William Chamberlain: The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed. Computer Prose and Poetry. Warner Software / Warner Books, New York, NY 1984, ISBN 0-446-38051-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Inrac_Corporation.html
2. ^ The book: The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed
3. ↑ http://www.mobygames.com/game/racter
4. ↑ CLAUDE: Shareware Clone of Racter

Web links

• Download the program
• The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed (PDF, 33 MB)