| Presidents Program | Brief presidential note listing the upcoming Waukesha County Expo on January 12 ($3 at the door) and confirming that a December issue will be published despite the recent bimonthly announcement. | |
| QUILL Users Tip | Short tip for users of the QUILL word processor on the Sinclair QL: how to jump to the previous or next paragraph boundary (defined as the position of the Enter key) by entering the command menu (F3), selecting the copy command (M), and pressing the up or down arrow key. Works both for cursor navigation | Sinclair QL |
| SQ Notes | Two topics. First: a systematic chip-swap procedure for diagnosing failed memory chips in a Sinclair QL Trump Card expansion board — removing the board cover, identifying the three memory chip banks, swapping chips one at a time into the critical first-position slot of the right bank (the only position that allows partial initialization), marking tested | Sinclair QL |
| The Limits of Computer Intelligence III | Third installment. Returns to the Chinese Room to demonstrate that even adding a dictionary (without illustrations) provides no semantic breakthrough for the computer; only colored illustrated definitions give the human ‘something to relate to.’ Conclusion 1: computer programs can perform only the syntactical portion of mental activity. Proposition 4: brains cause minds. Details the staggering | |
