I remember the TRS-80. It was an expensive piece of hardware, relative to the 2 jobs I had while working my way through pharmacy school, so I never got to buy one. We had a supercomputer we could use at USC, other than our computer pharmacies, community, we played Star Trek on it.
One Friday afternoon, Chris and I spent about 4 hours on it, playing Star Trek exclusively. As we logged off, it flashed a message that we had used 2.3 seconds of computer time. I didn't think about it again until one lawyer at the club I bartended at was discussing it with another of his kind and he mentioned it was somewhere around 5.8 thousand dollars a second.
Wow, I thought, and there isn't any place you could insert a quarter.
Thanks for the memories being resurrected by your discussions.
And thanks for the excellent article on Carl Rogers.
Interestingly perhaps, the first publicly available AI software was software was famously an emulation Rogerian therapy, back around 1978. Called "Doctor", you could type the BASIC program into your TRS-80 and it cleverly emulated a caring, supportive Rogerian psychologist.
It was also called "Eliza". Does that ring a bell? The BASIC code is on p. 101 in the book "Experiments in artificial intelligence for small computers" 1981 by John Krutch
Will share an email I received from Beverly Eakman about 28 years ago when I would often listen to her on Dr. Stan's shows. (I always liked her and we both graduated from Texas Ursuline Academy Catholic schools.)
Here is the email she sent me.
"Here’s a seven-point list, faxed to me from an educator in North Carolina. She got it during an in-service training workshop at her school, and it turns out to be representative of the new value system being transmitted in most schools today:
• There is no right or wrong, only conditioned responses.
• The collective good is more important than the individual.
• Consensus is more important than principle.
• Flexibility is more important than accomplishment.
• Nothing is permanent except change.
• All ethics are situational; there are no moral absolutes.
• There are no perpetrators, only victims.
Thank you for your kind words concerning my book. I hope that it helped you.
CORRECTION: Just noticed an error in what I posted. It was 19 years ago, 2005, that I first communicated with Beverly Eakman, NOT 28 years ago. I remember special requesting her book, The Cloning of the American Mind, from the public library and standing in line to check out at the library and everyone was laughing at the book title.
I remember the TRS-80. It was an expensive piece of hardware, relative to the 2 jobs I had while working my way through pharmacy school, so I never got to buy one. We had a supercomputer we could use at USC, other than our computer pharmacies, community, we played Star Trek on it.
One Friday afternoon, Chris and I spent about 4 hours on it, playing Star Trek exclusively. As we logged off, it flashed a message that we had used 2.3 seconds of computer time. I didn't think about it again until one lawyer at the club I bartended at was discussing it with another of his kind and he mentioned it was somewhere around 5.8 thousand dollars a second.
Wow, I thought, and there isn't any place you could insert a quarter.
Thanks for the memories being resurrected by your discussions.
And thanks for the excellent article on Carl Rogers.
-Edwin
Yes... Moral Relativism is at the root of many of the world's problems... Thanks for calling it out!
Interestingly perhaps, the first publicly available AI software was software was famously an emulation Rogerian therapy, back around 1978. Called "Doctor", you could type the BASIC program into your TRS-80 and it cleverly emulated a caring, supportive Rogerian psychologist.
Fascinating! I had a TRS-80 and do not remember partaking in that routine. Indeed "Rogerian"!
It was also called "Eliza". Does that ring a bell? The BASIC code is on p. 101 in the book "Experiments in artificial intelligence for small computers" 1981 by John Krutch
Now that you mention it do vaguely remember that name!
Will share an email I received from Beverly Eakman about 28 years ago when I would often listen to her on Dr. Stan's shows. (I always liked her and we both graduated from Texas Ursuline Academy Catholic schools.)
Here is the email she sent me.
"Here’s a seven-point list, faxed to me from an educator in North Carolina. She got it during an in-service training workshop at her school, and it turns out to be representative of the new value system being transmitted in most schools today:
• There is no right or wrong, only conditioned responses.
• The collective good is more important than the individual.
• Consensus is more important than principle.
• Flexibility is more important than accomplishment.
• Nothing is permanent except change.
• All ethics are situational; there are no moral absolutes.
• There are no perpetrators, only victims.
Thank you for your kind words concerning my book. I hope that it helped you.
Blessings,
Beverly Eakman"
CORRECTION: Just noticed an error in what I posted. It was 19 years ago, 2005, that I first communicated with Beverly Eakman, NOT 28 years ago. I remember special requesting her book, The Cloning of the American Mind, from the public library and standing in line to check out at the library and everyone was laughing at the book title.
Just wow! Thanks for sharing!