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 psychotherapist by turning your statements into questions.
“I feel sad.” → “Why do you feel sad?”
It was a parlor trick. Weizenbaum knew it. He built ELIZA specifically to show how shallow the illusion of understanding could be. Then he watched in horror as people poured their hearts out to it anyway.
RadioShack, never ones to miss a buck, packaged that existential crisis in a three-ring binder and sold it next to the battery display. Forty-five years later, we’re still having some of the same conversations — but with better graphics and venture capital. The big difference, for some… the machine is the problem, for others, it tells them their problems, either way there is a monthly fee.
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