09:32:28 From Dave Jaffe : Happy Earth Day! 09:58:09 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : https://notebook.community/hcchengithub/project-k/Play%20with%20the%20FORTH%20kernel%20on%20jupyter%20notebook 09:59:55 From Joseph O'Connor : Reach me at tiluser0@gmail.com Code for demo is available on Github at https://github.com/tiluser/cfpy_jn 10:03:23 From Dave Jaffe : Many tall buildings in Chicago don't list a 13th floor 10:07:39 From Juergen Pintaske : https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Unlucky_floor_numbers_in_elevators There are many more ... 10:18:29 From John Helmers, Minnesota : great job Bill! 10:19:56 From Richard Hair : Nice capacity calcs :) 10:24:29 From John Helmers, Minnesota : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thq9H9-OdNQ 10:24:40 From John Helmers, Minnesota : ^ there is no rule 6 10:28:55 From John Helmers, Minnesota : I think the one laptop per child ran forth 10:29:39 From Travis Bemann : the one laptop per child used openboot IIRC 10:29:47 From Travis Bemann : also known as openfirmware 10:30:00 From Travis Bemann : I remember openfirmware from my family's mac decades ago 10:30:12 From Travis Bemann : too bad the openfirmware implementation on that mac was buggy 10:30:30 From John Helmers, Minnesota : https://wiki.laptop.org/go/FORTH 10:32:28 From John Helmers, Minnesota : we can't buy the incandescent bulbs in Minnesota -- no easy baking here! 10:32:34 From Kevin Appert : what mac? 10:33:05 From Kevin Appert : OLPC was the last instance of Open Firmware (formerly called "Open Boot") which is a Forth-like-language (not a mac) 10:33:06 From Travis Bemann : some 180 MHz PowerPC 603e Mac IIRC 10:35:01 From Travis Bemann : you could hold down some key combo, it was something like command-option-O-F, on that Mac while it booted and it'd dump you at an Open Firmware prompt 10:37:40 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Forth-like? Wasn't it Forth? 10:38:43 From Travis Bemann : Open Firmware was Forth 10:39:28 From John Helmers, Minnesota : https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware 10:40:07 From Travis Bemann : too bad I found the version of Open Firmware in said Mac to be too buggy to be usable 10:40:30 From Kevin Appert : no, Open Firmware was Forth if you define Forth loosely to include Open Firmware. 10:42:41 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : I grew up on Martin Gardner!! 10:43:20 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : Flexagons!! 10:43:26 From Kevin Appert : which Mac? 10:43:56 From Dave Jaffe : Bridgit seems like the game played in Tron by characters on neon motorcycles / hovercraft 10:44:50 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : I worked on a 1620!! 10:45:15 From Travis Bemann : @Kevin the 180 MHz PPC Mac - I don't remember the model name 10:46:22 From John Helmers, Minnesota : Is bob frozen for you? 10:46:33 From Travis Bemann : Bobl's not frozen to me 10:46:37 From Travis Bemann : *Bob's 10:46:53 From John Helmers, Minnesota : I have to log off and back on. 10:46:55 From Travis Bemann : but sometimes Zoom does lock up for me for no good reason 10:59:26 From John Helmers, Minnesota : Thanks Bob 11:00:37 From Dave Jaffe : Pencil and Paper Games - Gale (also known as Bridgit) http://www.papg.com/show?1TPI 11:09:01 From John Helmers, Minnesota : http://programandala.net/en.program.tron_0xf.html 11:20:34 From Brad Nelson : https://www.amazon.com/McGraw-Hill-personal-computer-programming-encyclopedia/dp/0070053898#:~:text=The%20Encyclopedia%20is%20an%20authoritative,%2C%20Prolog%2C%20RPG%2C%20SAM76%2C 11:30:23 From John Helmers, Minnesota : Here is the first forth in my life. https://archive.org/details/GraFORTHManual on an Apple ][+ after reading the FORTH issue of Byte and then seeing Starting Forth in the Digital Design store in Rochester, MN. 11:30:35 From John Helmers, Minnesota : Good meeting guys I have to go, See you next time. 11:31:20 From Bob Armstrong : Reacted to "I worked on a 1620!!" with 👍 11:36:34 From Travis Bemann : My first Forth was ficl, even though I'd heard of Forth before that (my family's second computer, a Mac IIsi, came used from someone who was a programmer, and one of the CD's it came with had Yerkes Forth on it, but I didn't have enough documentation to make use of it) 11:40:31 From Juergen Pintaske : Thanks for the meeting. I kept quiet, as I am the odd one out. Then Kevin asked me directly, so I did a quick overview. The link to my Forth Bookshelf: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Juergen-Pintaske/e/B00N8HVEZM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Have to leave now. See you next time. 11:41:41 From Juergen Pintaske : Oh, and I forgot to mention: German nationality, but now living in the UK for 25 years.