July 2018 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
SVFIG on Google+ Hangout:
long
url - tinyurl
SVFIG
on Google+ - SVFIG on
YouTube - SVFIG on
YouTube Live
SVFIG YouTube
Channel
Videos: morning (1:13:17) - Brad Nelson
(1:03:33) - Sam Falvo
(0:45:23) |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:30 |
Transcription Factors - CH Ting
"It appears
that transcription factors are the mechanism the body uses to initiate the
transcription of messenger RNAs and non-coding RNA's from genomes. They bind to
genomes with a 22 base pattern which I believe are taken from microRNAs. If I
can find all the connections between them, I'll have a more complete picture of
cell computers"
- Slides - 536 Kb pdf file
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Introductions, Rumors, Gossip, and Announcements |
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13:15 |
Upcoming Events
- Vintage
Computer Festival West - Saturday & Sunday, August 4th & 5th
- Hoover Memorial Pavilion Exhibit -
"We Shot the War:
Overseas Weekly in Vietnam"
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13:40 |
Haiku Update - Brad Nelson
See what beautiful
treasures Haiku has recently caught.
- Video
(1:03:33)
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14:00 |
WWWBasic + Bringing Nike Simulation Game to the Web -
Brad Nelson
"At last month's SVFIG meeting, Ed Thelen presented a
Nike Hercules simulator, written in FreeBASIC. Inspired by the challenges of
running BASIC code in 2018 (particularly on my Linux laptop), I started hacking
away mid-meeting on a web-based BASIC compiler. I'll explore the challenges
involved in implementing it, how focusing on just bringing up Ed's program was
a powerful simplifying assumption, and how a Forth implementation might work if
done similarly."
- WWWBasic
- Brad's
WWWBasic
- Slides
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14:40 |
Break for Cake |
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15:00 |
BSPL's Role in Kestrel-3 - Speculation and Thoughts -
Samuel A. Falvo II
"I will describe what BSPL (Basic Systems
Programming Language) is (my statically compiled Forth-like language that
targets RISC-V specifically), and how it currently works. Then, I will describe
what I would like to see it do for me to support Kestrel-3 development. If done
correctly, it should help me bring up both VertigOS as well as DX/Forth
2.0."
- Video
(0:45:23)
- Ideas
for Kestrel-3
- Source
code
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Postponed |
A Day at the Electronic Fleamarket - Dave
Jaffe
The Last
Day at Weird Stuff Warehouse
Adam Savage’s Maker Faire 2018
presentation |
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- Tali Forth 2
for 65C02
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Who
uses Forth?
- Commercial applications of
Forth
- TermDriver listens on a
serial line and emulates a terminal on a standard VGA connector - James
Bowman
- TermDriver
firmware internal detail - James Bowman
- CoSy APL
NoteComputing environment in open x86 Reva Forth
- Forth Programming Books
- Threaded
Interpretive Languages -
pdf
- Programming
a Problem Oriented Language: Forth - how the internals work
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Photo
of Chuck Moore
- Products in Forth
- Wearable Technology -
Transmitter
- Logix
products - all in SwiftForth and SwiftX
- Multiplexer
modules
- Gameduino
- Misc Forth Stuff
- SPIDriver
- Computers
- A
$4, 4ICs, Z80 homemade computer on breadboard
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- FreeBASIC
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Catweasel
Floppy Read/Write Tools
- Hardware
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- An
Underwater Exploration Toolkit for Boats - Steven K. Roberts
- What’s
All This Rail-to-Rail Amplifier Stuff, Anyhow?
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- CoSy Update - Bob
Armstrong - 07/11/2018 (17:50)
- Dwight Elvey's
Heathkit EC-1 Analog Computer - 2016 (9:51)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- What's
your Heathkit story? (page 4)
- The Heathkit
Shop
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- May
the FORTH Musical offering - FORTI Decompiled
- Ham Radios
- BITX40 (40m SSB for
$60)
- uBITX (80m-10m SSB & CW
for $130)
- FT8
Ham Radio Digital Mode (video 7:06)
- The
Nixie Tube Story
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