Show HN: I extracted BASIC listings for Tim Hartnell's 1986 book
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I've extracted the BASIC program listings from Hartnell's 1986 book 'Exploring Artificial Intelligence on Your IBM PC' and organized them along with a PC-BASIC runtime environment and instructions so you can try these programs out yourself.
Even though the AI landscape has changed enormously since Hartnell first wrote this book, I hope one or two of you will get some value out of these program listings if you're interested in exploring the fundamentals of AI on home-computing platforms as they were in the 1980's.
Tim Hartnell unfortunately passed away in 1991 at the young age of 40, and without his writing I imagine more than a few of us would not have found the start in computing we did. Thanks Tim.
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