XPER on the Commodore 64
Christopher Drum, writing at Stone Tools, a blog ‘[e]xploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era’:
In a supreme act of hubris, I use 80s "expert system" AI technology to turn a C64 into a rain predictor. Will it fair better than a coin flip?
Via Unsung. Also, check out The Computer Chronicles episode ‘Artificial Intelligence’ from 1985. The demo of the natural language search in the Q&A software package at 17:43 is quite cool (for the time).
And Gary Kildall’s comment during the episode that “AI is one of those things that people are pinning to their products now to make them fancier, add the frosting, and make them sell better” prompts a knowing chuckle 40+ years later!