| Presidents Program |
Brief presidential note announcing a SMUG group buy for Sinclair QL keyboard replacement membranes in response to a rash of membrane failures among members, with a note that Frank Davis of 2068 UP DATE has a supply available for under $20. Also includes a meeting report noting discussion of incoming mail, purchase of a desktop |
Sinclair QL |
| SQ Notes |
Practical repair guide for Sinclair QL keyboard membranes with broken circuit traces. Describes using a VOM ohm meter with an attached razor-blade probe to locate breaks through the plastic laminate by piercing the surface along the trace. Covers two failure modes: a single broken trace (repaired by exposing the area, bridging with aluminum foil strip |
Sinclair QL |
| The Limits of Computer Intelligence |
First of four installments of a talk by Dr. Lloyd Dreger delivered at the 1990 Sinclair Expo. Establishes the philosophical framework: computer programs are purely formal/syntactic systems — they manipulate symbols without understanding them. Illustrates with three examples of syntactic-but-not-semantic tasks: chess (goal-directed tree branching), 20 Questions (binary branching with a learnable database), and Trivial |
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