Racter

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

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

By Claude program (published in 1991), there is an advanced shareware version of the program.