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RadioShack Sold You an “AI” Therapist in 1979

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RS-80 Manual: Eliza (1979)(Tandy) – archive.org Before ChatGPT, before Siri, before Clippy annoyed you about writing a letter — there was ELIZA, and you could buy her at the mall. In 1979, RadioShack released “The Amazing Artificial Intelligence Simulation” for the TRS-80 (catalog no. 26-1908). For the price of a few cassette tapes, you got a port of Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 MIT experiment: a program that pretended to be a Rogerian psychotherapi…
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adafruit.com broke the news in on Sunday, February 1, 2026.
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