August 2019 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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08:00 |
Breakfast
We met up at
Starbucks in the
Tresidder Union |
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10:00 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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10:30 |
Pattern Searching in Non-coding RNA - CH
Ting
"I am half way through the LNCipedia_5_2 collection of human long
non-coding RNA (a listing of 1.9G bases), and it is full of pearls and
necklaces. I will demonstrate how to mine this database."
- Slides - 393 Kb pdf file
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11:30 |
Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at
The Treehouse. |
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13:15 |
Introductions, Rumors, Gossip, and Announcements
Each
of us will mention a version of Forth.
- Jones Forth @ VCF
- Super Forth
- Max Forth
- This Forth
- UNTIL (Forth in C)
- Jupiter Ace Forth
- Jib Ray Forth
- Postscript
- Servowriter Forth
- GForth
- SSI Forth
- ANSYS Forth
- eForth
- Dragon Forth
- LaForth
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13:30 |
Un-Boxing - Andreas Wagner
Andreas will un-box
the third of three packages of Forth material sent to the SVFIG archives by Ray
Duncan, a giant from the history of Forth.
- Woods Hole Forth
- RSCS2258
- C Forth '83
- C Forth 1.3
- Forth Mac
- Owens Valley 1978
- Peep Hole Optimization in Forth
- MetaForth - metacompiler for FIG-forth
- LMI FORML paper
- LSI-11 Forth Listing
- Evolution of Forth - Elizabeth Rather
- Forth - A New Way to Program a Minicomputer
- Forth Meets Smalltalk Forth - A Language for Interactive
Computing
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13:45 |
A Day at the Vintage Computer Festival - Dave
Jaffe
Dave will show and describe photos he took at the event.
- Slides - 3.44 Mb pdf
file
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14:36 |
Robot Control Boards - Don Golding
Don will
provide an update on the Robot Control Board he is designing. The boards may be
available next month. |
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14:55 |
Break for Cake
Prolific Oven's Chocolate-on- chocolate
cake was served |
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14:55 |
Stores we miss
- Prolific Oven
- Radio Shack
- Redwing Shoes
- Orchard
Supply Hardware
- Weird Stuff Warehouse
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photos
- HSC
- Central Computer in Sunnyvale (burned down)
- Others not discussed:
- After
42 years, Harry’s Hofbrau is closing in San Jose
- Keeble & Shuchat, one
of the last camera stores in the bay area
- Uncle Otto's Cheesecakes
- St. James Infirmary (Burger place)
- Sears
- Fry's in Palo Alto (at the end of the year)
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15:35 |
Myasthenia Gravis - Dennis Ruffer
"My health
came crashing down a couple weeks ago and I've only been out of the hospital
for a week now, but doing better every day now. I will tell the story of my
condition:
Myasthenia
Gravis.”
- Squeak / Smalltalk
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16:00 |
Clean Up and Adjourn |
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14:45 |
Dinner at Fey Restaurant - 1368 El Camino Real, Menlo
Park
We celebrated Dr Ting’s 80th birthday in Chinese culinary
style.
- Attending:
- CH Ting - Birthday Boy
- George Perry
- Andreas Wagner
- Kevin Appert
- Brad Nelson
- Don Golding
- John Carpenter
- John Harbold
- Dave Jaffe
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Other items:
- Forth
- 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
- M5Stack
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Space stuff
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- What’s
All This Shush Circuit Stuff, Anyhow?
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Archinaut
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Apollo Guidance
Computer (AGC) Demonstration at Vintage Computer Festival (video
38:37)
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Retro Computing
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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