druid77

Thanks for your comment. I think it's an accurate headline, as the client and server code I wrote (which goes through the hardware TRS-IO (which, yes, has the ESP32 chip on it)) allows for ChatGPT interaction on the TRS-80. The I/O module (TRS-IO) is just providing a way for a BASIC program (the "client") to send and receive network requests over the serial port. The client is essentially a dumb terminal, and doesn't have much logic at all. I’m running a python "server" on a Linux box (AWS EC2) that handles the request then constructs an OpenAI call from there, then passes the response back to the TRS-80. So that's what I'm trying to represent as the client/server in the headline :). Most of the work I did was in creating the client and server, not just plugging in hardware. Although I did spend a painful amount of time cleaning the keys, and just generally figuring out an approach. I think a good title would be "TRS-80 as a dumb terminal to ChatGPT".

Th I/O module (TRS-IO) is just providing a way for a BASIC programs to send and receive network requests over the serial port. So yes, I’m actually taking the dumb terminal approach. I’m running a python server on a Linux box (AWS EC2) that handles the request then constructs an OpenAI call from there, then passes the response back to the TRS-80.

This computer only physically has 48k. That’s after upgrading. The base model has 16k as far as I understand how it came from RadioShack.

That would be a really cool addition. GPT seems less good at writing BASIC code, than other modern languages though. I think since GPT mostly crawls online sources there was less training material put online overall. :)

Thanks! I did that and all is good now

I'm not really replying to this post per se, but the NES emulator is pretty cool. Just wondering if anyone who has posted here can help me. I posted my very first hacker news submission, but it only shows up on the "new" tab when I'm logged in (with an orange asterisk next to it). When I log out it's nowhere to be found. When I log back in, I see it. The FAQ says that "All Ask HNs appear on newest and asknew". Just a shot in the dark, but if anyone has any ideas what might be going on, it's appreciated. And sorry for spamming this submission.