July 2009 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:15

Video from July 2008 SVFIG Meeting - CH Ting et al.
That month our room at Cogswell wasn't available, so a few members convened at Ting's meeting house in San Mateo. Masa taped Ting's presentation as well as some of the rest of the meeting. We'll all have a look at Ting's presentation.

11:40

Lunch
Lunch on-campus. To avoid the "noon lemming effect", we'll leave a little early.

13:00

Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random Access

13:15

Photos from Intel Museum and Museum of American Heritage Visits - Dave Jaffe, Kevin Appert, Jay McKnight, Masa Kasahara
"We will narrate our observations and thoughts"

14:00

Break

14:20

A New Generation of Forth Arrays and Tools - Jeff Fox
Jeff will review the details of the Green Arrays GA4, GA32, and GA144 and give an example of software using the hardware changes that Chuck has listed on his website. He will demonstrate an interactive Forth on a GA32 talking to ColorForth on a PC.

Jeff's blog
Jeff's comments

As Permitted by Time --- Videos - Jeff Fox
Jeff will bring in a box of digital video of old Forth presentations going back eighteen years and let anyone make CD or DVD copies as they choose. We may actually screen one or two!

16:00

Adjourn


Other items:

Forth
Forth for the Zilog Z8 Microcontroller - Robert Edwards
Retro Forth
amforth
Jupiter Ace Resource Site
General Forth Information from magazines
Homebrew Robotics Club - Forth on Robots
Browser-based Forth IDE - John Slater
Pe-alpha Version
Verbal Forth - Robert Patton
Software
Hardware
ioBridge IO-204 Monitor & Control Module
Beagle Board
Books
Other
Intel Museum's Online Exhibits
Walmart to sell Notebook cheeper than Netbooks
Forth T-shirts

Meeting Announcement

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