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6,654 pages: 1,289 machines, 702 software, 460 companies, 64 history, 17 articles, 59 fun. 4,336 media files so far; references to files not downloaded yet are left out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: Deduce also known as Deduce-SA
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tags:
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- mind games
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years:
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- '1971'
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params:
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specs:
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- label: year of release
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value: '1971'
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- label: companies
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value: RCA
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- label: type
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value: game
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- label: media
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value: tape
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- label: systems
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value: RCA Fred computers
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- label: number of players
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value: 1 player
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- label: staff
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value: Joseph Weisbecker (Programmer)
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screenshots:
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- title: you have 15 turns to guess the 4 digits chosen by the computer
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: 1 digit is in the right position and 3 are misplaced
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: again, 1 digit is in the right position and 3 are misplaced
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: Not turn left and the player has not guessed the four digits. Its a lost game.
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: Original note from the Fred documentation
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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machines:
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- /museum/rca-fred
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company: /companies/rca
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oc_id: 850
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230207050352/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=850
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date: '2023-02-07'
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This is one of the first games available for the Fred project, as the first version was programmed by Jospeh Weisbecker on the 7th december 1971.
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The first "Deduce" is not really a game but rather a demonstration of "artificial intelligence" of the computer. It works like this: the computer deduces which one of 8 front panel lights the player has chosen, simply by asking three questions. These questions are in fact a serie of 4 front panel lights lit, and the player must tell the computer if his chosen light is among the ones lit.
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There is no screen display involved in this version. Everything is happening on the front panel lights of the Fred computer.
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Sometimes later, surely after 1972 (as the famous board game Mastermind was released in 1971/1972), a second version was programmed for the Fred systems. This time it plays more like a Mastermind game where the player must guess 4 digits chosen by the computer within 15 rounds.
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Each time the player enter a serie of 4 digits, the computer will tell how many digits are are their right position, and how many digits are valid but misplaced.
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At the end of the 15 turns, if the player didn't succeed in finding the right 4 digits code, the computer will display LOSE.
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