Ruggeri Photography, from American Photography Showcase Vol. 11 (1988)
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ANDY the “Personality Robot” by Andrew Filo (1985), Axlon, Sunnyvale, CA. ANDY is designed to work with the Atari 800 (48K) and 800XL, and the Commodore 64. It comes with the PERSONALITY EDITOR, allowing users to edit simple ‘personality’ subroutines in BASIC. “I pushed Nolan to make a ‘toy’ grade version of Androbot, but it was too late. I returned to Androbot from Christmas Vacation to find I was Fired but told to report to Nolan's Catalyst Building, where He told me to try to develop a toy androbot. I quickly crafted a robot based on the FRED plastics and started on a software package called the personality editor. It cost about 1/10th the price of a FRED and was intended to be a roaming and interactive computer ‘pet’ as opposed to the original drawing turtle. Nolan Christened it Andy Robot to honor me and spite the Androbot.” – Andrew Filo.
