About Eliza…

Eliza is a handy text editor that includes a built-in psychologist!  I keep a copy in my Apple menu and an alias on the desktop (for drag-and-drop operations).  Eliza is fast, easy-to-use and requires very little memory.  It is particularly adept at formatting text which is transmitted to and from a BBS.

Select ‘Start Interview’ when you are ready to match wits with a dumb (?) computer.  Eliza will make a statement and then wait for your reply.  Type your response, followed by a carriage return.  Be sure to enter your reply at the end of the text.  (Eliza simulates an open-ended psychoanalytical interview.)

Eliza requires System version 6.0.7 or newer.  If you wish to hear Eliza speak, you should install Apple’s Speech Manager extension in your Extensions folder (along with any desired voices).  The program runs perfectly well without the Speech Manager.

Eliza is limited to 32K text files.  Extended keyboard functions (‘Home’, ‘End’, etc.), balloon help and ‘Undo’ (for most functions) are supported.  Eliza is System 7 compatible, 32 bit clean, 68040 cache compatible, Apple event aware and stationery aware.

I used the wonderful THINK Pascal™ compiler and would recommend it to any other novice programmer.  The source debugger is excellent.

Eliza 4.1 is ShareWare.  Please send your $5 registration fee to:

      Tom Bender
      5313 Beverly Drive
      San Angelo, Texas  76904

Registered owners may obtain a copy of the Pascal source code (for personal use only).  Just send a disk and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the address above.  (If you live outside of the U.S.A. and are unable to buy American postage, I will accept an appropriate amount of your local currency.)

You can send feedback and obtain product support via modem:

      America Online:  TomBB

Also try Tex-Edit, Re-Pete and Azile, hopefully available on a BBS near you!