20 Aug
2007
20 Aug
'07
1:35 p.m.
I have uploaded a pdf of the article The Electronic Brain by W.R. Ashby,
M.A., M.D. from the March 1949 issue of Radio Electronics to my web site,
along with other updates. Ashby describes the Homeostat and it's
potential for building an artificial intelligence computer.
vintagecomputer.net/electronic_brain.cfm
Bill D
20 Aug
20 Aug
1:57 p.m.
On 20 Aug 2007 at 13:35, B Degnan wrote:
I have uploaded a pdf of the article The Electronic
Brain by W.R. Ashby,
M.A., M.D. from the March 1949 issue of Radio Electronics to my web site,
along with other updates. Ashby describes the Homeostat and it's
potential for building an artificial intelligence computer.
vintagecomputer.net/electronic_brain.cfm
Thanks for a great article! I enjoyed the final section where the
author postulates how an artificial brain made from these devices
would come to direct our social order.
What this brings to mind is the work at MIT in the 50's on the
Perceptron. Great things were forecast for the technology at the
time also.
Cheers,
Chuck
4:28 p.m.
On 20 Aug 2007 at 13:35, B Degnan wrote:
I have uploaded a pdf of the article The Electronic
Brain by W.R. Ashby,
M.A., M.D. from the March 1949 issue of Radio Electronics to my web site,
along with other updates. Ashby describes the Homeostat and it's
potential for building an artificial intelligence computer.
For those who would enjoy reading some of the other work of W. Ross
Ashby (a little-mentioned, but highly influential to early computing
psychiatrist), there's a PDF of his 1956 text "An Introduction to
Cybernetics" online:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html
Cheers,
Chuck
4:49 p.m.
New subject: Tandy Model 4 question
Just inherited a Model 4 with twin floppies.
The CRT seems to powerup but no text on screen..
The lower drive light comes on but no other activity.
Is there a common failure mode for these critters?
George Rachor
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Hillsboro, Oregon http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
4:58 p.m.
New subject: Tandy Model 4 question
Rumor has it that George L. Rachor Jr. may have mentioned these words:
Just inherited a Model 4 with twin floppies.
The CRT seems to powerup but no text on screen..
The lower drive light comes on but no other activity.
Is there a common failure mode for these critters?
The foremost 'failure mode' is no boot floppy! ;-)
Try holding the break key and press the reset button (the inset red button
near the numeric keypad) and see if it comes up to the Model III cassette
basic. You should see a memory prompt, like "? MEM Size" or somesuch --
warning: It's been almost 20 years since I've diddled with a Mod4, so the
neurons don't fire quite as well as they used to... ;-)
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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6:24 p.m.
New subject: Tandy Model 4 question
Just inherited a Model 4 with twin floppies.
The CRT seems to powerup but no text on screen..
The lower drive light comes on but no other activity.
That, IIRC, is correct behaviour if you don't have a boot disk.
Try turning it on (or pressing 'Reset' -- the orange button in the top
right cornder of the keyboard) while holding down the 'BREAK' key. You
should geht a CASS? prompt. Hit 'ENTER' (Tandy's name for Return), then
you'll get a MEMORY SIZE? Prompt. 'ENTER' again, and you'll be in ROM
BASIC. This can save/load to cassette, but not disk.
You should be able to find a TRS-DOS 6.x (or LSODS 6.x) boot disk image
on the web somwehre.
Is there a common failure mode for these critters?
There are seceral (most common being the infernal cables between the CPU
board and disk controller and RS232 interace on early machines). But
let's make sure it's failed first :-)
-tony
22 Aug
22 Aug
9:29 a.m.
New subject: Colossal Cave Source
I don't remember seeing this on the list, if it was previously
mentioned. I apologize.
Now, with that out of the way. They found the original source for
colossal cave.
Here's a small blurb.
http://64.223.189.234/node/470
Rob
ps. I know. Weird address.
Rob Borsuk
email: rborsuk at colourfull.com
Colourfull Creations
Web: http://www.colourfull.com
2:39 p.m.
New subject: Colossal Cave Source
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Robert Borsuk wrote:
I don't remember seeing this on the list, if it
was previously
mentioned. I apologize.
Now, with that out of the way. They found the original source for
colossal cave.
Here's a small blurb.
http://64.223.189.234/node/470
I heard about that on rec.arts.int-fiction. The article that's no longer
visible was captured and put here:
http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/articles/original_adventure.zip
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