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I can’t find any reference now to it to save my life except one on Usenet. But there was also a Gopher Server hosted on HyperCard. A professor reached out to me in 1994 on AOL because he saw my Eliza (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) HyperCard stack and wanted to port it to run using Gopher.

He paid me $1500 to port it. That was my first paid software job. It led to an internship somewhere else and the rest is history.

Funny enough, while trying to find information about it, I found a Usenet post in Google Groups where the professor mentioned my name in 1993 about the stack. I never knew he posted about me before today.

>>scarfa+(OP)
I'd be interested to know more about both your Eliza stack and the Gopher Server hosted on HyperCard. In the 'HyperCard Online' collection of stacks[0] (which I maintain), there is one Eliza-like stack[1], but I'd love to see another.

What's the reference you've found on Usenet?

[0] https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks

[1] https://archive.org/details/hypercard_hyperpsych

>>betama+UC
Unfortunately, it seems to be lost to history unless there is an active mirror to the old Info-Mac archives.

It’s referenced here:

http://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/cdrom/cdrom...

search for “Professor X”. I first used a MacinTalk HyperCard plug in and later used a PlainTalk plug in.

That was actually my second version. My first version was written in AppleSoft Basic for the Apple //e and used Software Automated Mouth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth)

Here is the Usenet reference. The professor still works for the same University.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!search/HyperCard$20gcedu...