I wrote a different program called SAM - Simulated Artificial Mentality. It looked for common strings inside a sentence and responded with one of 5 random choo

I wrote a different program called SAM - Simulated Artificial Mentality. It looked for common strings inside a sentence and responded with one of 5 random choose sentences. It had the ability to add new sentences as it was used so over time it got better and better. What got me was that it was less than 100 lines of BASIC code, yet I had people spending over an hour typing with it. And one girl was in tears as she was busy with it talking about her breakup with her boy friend. Note the database of answers was over 2000 questions, I think I still have the paper tape with the original program even.