| GIGO: The Meeting | December meeting report noting low attendance due to a snow storm and consequent cancellation of planned modem training. Covers the treasury report (in good shape), circulation of letters from FOG (Friends of Gateway), distribution of Robert Shade’s digitizer book, and a surprise visit from former member John Wells who reported on a local FIDO BBS | |
| Letter on the Digitizer | Letter from Robert Shade of Philadelphia to SMUG listing 14 items enclosed for feedback on his TS2068 video digitizing experiments. Items include revised versions of the Eye by Night, Videotex, and Video 3-D programs adapted for the Larken disk system; WORDMASTER program screen color substitution patterns; and multiple printed examples of digitized video images in | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Presidents Program | Club update noting concerns about SNUG (Sinclair National Users Group) combining newsletters, Vulcan Computer Monthly dropping its Sinclair section, and the upcoming Waukesha County Expo January 12. Reports on a detailed package of materials received from Robert Shade of Philadelphia documenting his TS2068 video digitizing experiments and revised disk software for the Larken system. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Limits of Computer Intelligence IV | Fourth and final installment. Argues that brain simulation is impractical due to complexity theory (combinatorial explosion). Conclusion 2: simulating the thought process is more tractable than simulating neurons. Traces human cognitive development from birth — senses, pleasure/pain center, cause/effect experience forming concepts — to show that all higher cognition (language, abstraction, scientific reasoning, insight) arises | |
| Updated Program for QUILL | Short notice about an upgraded version of SPELLBOUND, a spell checker add-on for the QL’s QUILL word processor, released by Sector Software (39 Wray Crescent, Ulnes Walton, Leyland, Lancashire, PR5 3NH). The upgrade is priced at £50 or £30 plus the original copy. Also mentions a forthcoming QL-to-Amiga file link and an Atari ST-to-Z88 link | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL |
