Other collecting activities?

From: Brian Mahoney <brianmahoney_at_look.ca>
Date: Sat Apr 17 15:46:56 2004

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From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Other collecting activities?

> This brings up an interesting question, have there really been computers
> that could write scripts or books? I remember rumors in the mid-80's that
> some of the pulpish adventure books were written by a computer.
Personally
> I find it hard to believe.
>
 According to the book I mentioned, the TX-0 wrote three scripts for a
western 'playlet'. They were actually televised
during the CBS show, The Thinking Machine. The computer used a
script-writing program called SAGA II. According to this link :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX-0

the TX-0 became the PDP-1.

bm
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