August 2018 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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afternoon
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:30 |
Searching and Sorting - CH Ting
"Genome files
are getting more numerous and larger. As a consequence searching them for
specific patterns takes more time. I tried to optimize string compare and
string search, with the machine instruction cmpsb. There are other strategies
to reduce searching time for specific tasks such as Data Mining." |
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:00 |
Vintage Computing - Erik Klein
Erik will report
on the recent Vintage Computer Festival West and tell us about the Vintage
Computer Federation. |
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13:30 |
A Day at the Electronics Fleamarket and a Different Day at
the Vintage Computer Festival - Dave Jaffe
Dave will present
photos he took at the June Electronics Fleamarket and the recent Vintage
Computer Festival.
- Fleamarket photos - 4.12 Mb
pdf file
- VCF photos - 4.54 Mb pdf
file
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14:10 |
Introductions, Rumors, Gossip, and Announcements |
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14:15 |
Ascetic Programming - Samuel A. Falvo II
"I
will present how I write non-trivial, expandable, maintainable software in
Forth without the use of objects."
- Slides
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14:40 |
Break |
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15:17 |
Paper & Pencil Electronics - Andreas
Wagner
"I will briefly demonstrate my experiments with paper dielectric
and pencil graphite capacitor, antenna, geometric diode, etc on my
oscilloscope, and show a transistor that someone else got working. I don't have
much to say about optimizing the geometry yet, but it's a step towards a
(possible) from-scratch Forth computer."
- Slides - 19.9 Mb pdf
file
- Blog
- Graphene Geometric Diodes
for Optical Rectennas
- Graphite
Circuitry Experiments
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15:42 |
Lisp Implemented in Forth - Michael
Schuldt
Michael briefly discussed RailLisp, a fast and portable Lisp
implemented in Forth.
- GitHub
RailLisp website
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
Other items:
- Forth
- REPL online
Forth
- A Dynamic Forth
Compiler for WebAssembly
- 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
- Products in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Solid
state replacement for obsolete floppy disks
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Donkey.bas
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Dr. Gräper, the
PLATO humorist
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- VCF Links
- CARDIAC cardboard
computer
- GENIAC
- BRAINIAC
K-30
- DIGI-COMP 1
- Altair-Duino by
RetroCompKit
- 10% off
Altair-Duino kit
- CP/Maker Machine
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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