September 2008 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:45
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Coffee and a Chat
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10:00
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Greetings from your Cogswell Host -
Tim Duncan
Tim will definitely be there and we're hoping he'll say a few words.
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10:10
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Forth Day 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!
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10:30
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Book Talk Degenerating into Random
Discussion - Kevin Appert
"I plan to bring a few Forth books and chat about them. You're welcome to
bring your favorite weighty tomes as well. Then we'll digress into some
discussion impossible to predict."
Forth book currently not available from Amazon
- Advanced
Spectrum Forth - Don Thomasson
"Depite being written for a sadly obsolete platform, Advanced Spectrum
Forth remains one of the best Forth programming books. The source code for the
dictionary provides a valuable resource."
- Forth books by CH
Ting
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Noon
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Lunch
Some folks bring their lunch, some will eat on-campus or nearby.
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13:00
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Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random
Access
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13:20
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Field Trip Logistics - Kevin
Appert
We'll talk about plans to visit the Iron Man Museum in Sunnyvale some Saturday
coming "soon".
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13:30
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New at IntellaSys - John Rible
"IntellaSys announced the s40c18 today, complete with Elizabeth
Rather-written manuals, so we may have a few things to talk about."
- IntellaSys website
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14:00
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Lots of Dots - Kevin Appert
Kevin will discuss the creation of 7x9 (or so) dot matrix ROM font tables for
LCDs with SwiftForth or Excel spreadsheets. If you're labeling plots or
graphics on raster displays, this may come in handy.
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15:00
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Random Access - All in attendance
Will it be random or just pseudo-random? We always find something to
talk about.
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15:30
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Herman Remembered - All
assembled
We'll spend a few minutes talking about our memories of Herman Griffin.
- Obituary
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16:00
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Adjourn
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Other items:
Forth
- Webserver in Forth
- Greg Bailey, of Athena Programming, developed an extensive Internet package
in a variant of polyFORTH, perhaps this is what you were thinking of. It
includes ftp and mail servers, but no http (at least, last time I checked). It
is incredibly fast and incredibly secure. He sells it on a subscription basis,
providing extensive support for a monthly fee. You can contact him at
greg@minerva.com.
- Athena Programming
Incorporated
- 19330 NW Sauvie Island Rd.
- Portland, OR 97231
- 503/621-3461
- German Forth Publication -
Vierte
Dimension
- Forth article - Modern
Forth by Stephen Pelc - 09/11/2008
Other
- Free Courses - Stanford
Enginnering Everywhere
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