This is a sample of one of the great number of conversational programs. In a sense, it is like a CAI program except that its responses are just good fun. Whenever a computer is exhibited at a convention or conference with people that have not used a computer before, the conversational programs seem to get the first activity.
In this particular program, the computer dispenses advice on various problems such as sex. health, money, or job.
David Ahl is the author of HELLO.
As published in Basic Computer Games (1978):
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