July 2019 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


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SVFIG YouTube Channel

Videos: morning (0:58:52) - afternoon (3:01:12)

08:00

Breakfast
We met up at Starbucks in the Tresidder Union

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:30

Pattern Searching in Noncoding RNA - CH Ting
"cDNA and Long-Noncoding RNA are expressed genes found in human tissues. They do not code for proteins, and may contain control information for human cells to operate. I should find pattern matching pearls and necklaces in them. The data files are huge so I am trying to analyze them in chunks."

Slides - 173 Kb pdf file

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:15

Introductions, Rumors, Gossip, and Announcements
Each of us will briefly describe a Forth project he worked on, knew of, or heard rumors about.

Steve Roberts

13:45

Vintage Computer Festival
We'll spend a few minutes reviewing the upcoming VCF schedule.

13:55

Robot Control Boards - Don Golding
Don will discuss the schematics for the new Robot Control Board. They will be available at the next meeting.

Cosmac Elf prototype
LMI Forth-83

14:55

Break for Cake

15:05

Thoughts on a Graphical Forth Environment Inspired by Smalltalk - Samuel A. Falvo II
"I've recently had a very pleasant experience learning to code for Squeak Smalltalk. However, I had (and still have) a number of frustrations that I'm certain I wouldn't have (or have as badly) if the environment were built on Forth. This talk would be a quick and dirty brainstorming session on what I envision such an environment to be like, both to use and to program for."

Squeak / Smalltalk

14:45

UnBoxing - Andreas Wagner
We'll unbox packages of Forth material sent to the SVFIG archives by Ray Duncan, a giant from the history of Forth.

Inventory

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn


Other items:

Forth
Mitch Bradley's CForth implementation
ceForth_33
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
Steve Roberts CHM photo
Steven K. Roberts bio
Nomadic Research Labs
Products in Forth
Misc Forth Stuff
Forth Archive (GreenArrays)
Computers
Raspberry Pi at Central Computers
Chips
Components
Software Applications
Face Detection and Recognition on the ESP32
OpenMV - Machine Vision modules
GNU 8085 Simulator - Site - Source
MCU 8051 IDE
Space Applications
Space stuff
Rebooting a 50 Year Old Computer - Making the Apollo Guidance Computer Work Again (video 14:37)
The Real Story Behind the Apollo 11 Computer Error (video 7:17)
IBM 1401 tribute to Apollo XI (video 13:51)
Programming Languages other than Forth
Operating Systems
Utilities
Hardware
Ham Radio & Instruments
Logic Pirate (Logic Analyzer)
Grove Starter Kit for Azure IoT Edge
Other Books
Manuals & Documentation
Articles
What’s All This Stuff Stuff, Anyhow?
Applications
Stores
Robots
Games
Companies
Lectures
People
LaFarr Stuart on Wikipedia
Surplus Houses
Meetings
Videos
Video of original Tetris game
Courses
Trade Shows
Podcasts
Personal Computer History
Retro Computing
Tutorials
Education
Contests
Blogs
Other


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