August 2017 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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YouTube - SVFIG on
YouTube Live
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Channel
Videos: morning (1:11:20) -
afternoon (3:01:30) |
10:30 |
Building a Spectrometer - CH Ting "Electronic
spectrographs recorded by a digital camera can be processed like a traditional
spectrometer. The resultant curved spectral lines must be straightened and
integrated vertically to form an accurate spectrum. I will talk about the
spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, and spectrophotometer, and all the
fun I've had with them."
- Slides - 693 Kb pdf file
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11:30 |
Lunch We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
13:00 |
Vintage Computer Festival Slideshow - Dave
Jaffe Dave will show more than a few photographs from the VCF.
- Slides - 4.37 Mb pdf
file
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13:45 |
VM without the 'Virtual': A Novel Execution Model for the
GA144 - James Bowman Also participating in this project are
Michael Schuldt and Mark Flamer.
- Slides - 379 Kb pdf
file
- GA144 note: Native
threaded execution
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14:45 |
What's all this T-Shirt Stuff, Anyhow? - Brad
Nelson Brad will give us a few behind-the-scenes details of the t-shirt
process and perhaps the secret inside story of the origin and meaning of the
SVFIG logo.
- Slides - 309 Kb pdf
file
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14:50 |
Break with T-Shirt Sales |
15:00 |
Eclipses and So Forth - Brad Nelson "Predicting
solar eclipses was challenging to ancient astronomers. With the benefit of
modern measurements, and a little bit of Forth, we'll tackle eclipse
prediction!"
- Slides - 479 Kb pdf
file
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn
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Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth: The
Hackers Language - Elliot Williams
- Forth Programming Books
- 1995
FORML Conference Proceedings - Cover & Table of Contents
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Angelus
Robots - employs Max Forth 68HC11
- Computers
- Microstick
II
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- How
Kroll Ontrack Recovered 99% of Data from Columbia Space Shuttle
Disaster
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Michelson:
The Language of Smart Contracts in Tezos
- Operating Systems
- Has Real-mode DOS
been removed from Microsoft's Windows Millennium Edition?
- DOS/32
Advanced DOS Extender
- FreeDOS
1.2
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- An Interview with Bil Herd, former Commodore Engineer -
Part
1,
Part
2,
Part
3
- An Interview with Chuck Peddle -
Part
1,
Part
2,
Part
3,
Part
4
- Personal Computer History
- Alice
3 - Z80 CP/M computer
- Brad A. Grantham
- Alice 3
- PiDP-8/I:
Recreating the PDP-8/I
- Starting
to make a PiDP-11/70
- PDP-12
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- See
How This Intricate, 3D Printed Mechanical Calculator Works
- Notation as
a Tool of Thought - Kenneth E. Iverson
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