SVFIG Meeting Agenda for Saturday, February 27, 1999 at Cogswell College 1175 Bordeaux Dr. Sunnyvale, CA |
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09:45 |
Coffee and Donuts |
10:00 |
Pico Computers - C.H. Ting Ting will talk about a fully integrated computer on a single chip that he is thinking of developing. He will be soliciting investments for this from those who think that this is a good idea. |
12:00 |
Lunch Pizza or subs from Togos? Bring your Forth problem to Glen Haydon and he will organize his Brown Bag Tutorial accordingly. |
13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, and Gossip |
13:30 |
Series Approximations for Functions in Forth - David L. Jaffe Dave will present a method of implementing trigonometric series approximations in Forth. He will demonstrate this technique on sine and arctangent. (Handout) |
14:30 |
Break |
15:00 |
Open Floor Anyone who has something about Forth to talk about. |
16:00 |
Adjournment Post meeting "tea" at a Mt. View coffee house or somewhere else is possible - if it is too early for dinner. "Weird Stuff" is not too far away - most months, a few bargain/oddity hunters gather there after the meeting. |
| Websites discussed at the meeting | ||
Anchorchips (bus chips) |
http://www.anchorchips.com/ |
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| Proxim (Wireless Lans) | http://www.proxim.com/ | |
| Scenix Semiconductor, Inc. (8-bit MCU) | http://www.scenix.com/ | |
| Linx Technologies (RF modules) | http://www.linxtechnologies.com/index.html | |
| RF Monolithics, Inc. (RF transceiver) | http://www.rfm.com/index1.htm | |
| The Handy Board (68HC11 controller) | http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/ | |
| World's Smallest Web Server | http://wearables.stanford.edu/ | |
| Dictionary.com | http://www.dictionary.com/ | |
| List of dictionaries | http://www.serve.com/sdjtc/dictionaries.htm | |
| Dan Bricklin's website | http://www.bricklin.com/ | |
| Jef Raskin's website | http://freebie.cfcl.com/~jef/ | |
| FreeAdvice | http://www.freeadvice.com/ | |
| Dogpile search engine | http://www.dogpile.com/ | |
| Mamma search engine | http://www.mamma.com/ | |