June 2016 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


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Videos: morning (1:25:14) - afternoon (2:43:04)

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10:00

PDP1 eForth - CH Ting
"The compiler part of PDP1 eForth is now working. The PDP1 is interesting because it was the very first personal computer which honestly reflected the personality of its individual user."

Slides

11:30

Lunch
We ate at The Treehouse.

13:00

A Day at the Maker Faire - Dave Jaffe
"I took a few photos to share with the group."

Slides
Adam Savage's "sermon" from the Maker Faire - first 17 minutes is his presentation, the rest is Q&A

13:35

Fun with Frame Buffers - Brad Nelson
Drawing to the display used to be as simple as writing to the right addresses in memory. Decades of "progress" have resulted in a considerably more baroque process. Brad will describe his quest to get back to a simple interface when drawing in Forth.

Slides

14:20

Break

14:40

4th.CoSy - Bob Armstrong
"I'd be up for giving a little demo of the current state of 4th.CoSy. A remarkably small, but impure, change I could have made long ago has made editing use much simpler."

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn


Other items:

Forth
Machine Forth for the ARM Processor by Reuben Thomas
Forth for MSP430
Forth Tutorials
Forth CPUs
Forth Articles and Blogs
Forth Programming Books
Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
Other Jobs
Green Arrays
Forth People
Misc Forth Stuff
Computers
One Dollar Board
Tiny Modules Target IoT Applications
Chips
Scientists just unveiled the world's first 1,000-processor computer chip
Components
Software Applications
Never 10
Space Applications
Programming Languages other than Forth
How to Get Started with C++ in Embedded Systems (with transcript and audio)
Operating Systems
Utilities
Hardware
DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector
SensorTile - video (2:57)
Other Books
Manuals & Documentation
Articles
IBM Watson: Six lessons from an early adopter on how to do machine learning
Applications
Stores
Quement Electronics
2328 Walsh Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 95051
408/998-5355
Robots
Games
Companies
Lectures
People
Surplus Houses
Meetings
Videos
PLDI 2016 ARRAY Workshop Keynote titled "Notation for Parallel Thoughts" by Morten Kromberg, CXO of Dyalog APL (1:02:30)
Dr. Richard W. Hamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995) (47:02)
Courses
Trade Shows
Podcasts
Personal Computer History
Tutorials
Education
Blogs
Other
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