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- From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Organization: The Big Wedge
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:44:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.171359.8478@cbnews.cb.att.com>, tpp@cbnews.cb.att.com (thomas.p.pschar) writes:
-
- |> Racter! I bought that program a long time ago, but it had to run off of drive
- |> A, which on my machine was a 3 1/2 (the disk was a 5 1/4). I never could get it
- |> to run, and even sent the disk back. Does anyone still have it? Did anyone
- |> hack it to work off any drive?
-
- A roommate of a friend of mine had a copy of Racter on his Amiga. One night
- in 1989 when I was trying very hard to ignore school, we spent six hours
- trying to get it to say that "cats and dogs should get along". We went through
- a lot of interesting sentences in the interim, and I think managed to see all
- of Racter's vocabulary.
-
- In "Return to Club Kibo", I was going to include a conversation between
- Eliza, Racter and Springhead on the subject of whether Spot is allowed. I
- really should get around to writing that.
-
- To bring this back to books: Racter was where I first heard of Oblomov.
- Who was the author who used Oblomov as a character, and in what novel? Is
- it still in print at all?
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- ___/ | Jim Kasprzak, computer operator @ RPI, Troy, NY, USA
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