October 2007 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:45
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Coffee and a chat
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10:15
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Bicycle Chain Seive - LaFarr
Stuart
LaFarr discussed factoring numbers and the Lehmer Chain Sieve.
- 1926 Bicycle Chain
Computing!
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12:00
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Lunch
Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos.
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13:00
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Introductions, announcements, rumors, and
random access
- Photos
from the RoboDevelopment Expo and a robotics lab at Stanford
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13:30
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Interesting Items - Volume 9 - Dave
Jaffe
Dave will continue his survey of interesting newly-introduced microcontrollers,
I/O peripherals, sensors, products, and gadgets that can provide useful and
unique capabilities to Forth embedded systems. If anyone has come across
anything that fits this category, pass them along to him for inclusion in his
presentation.
- Powerpoint slides - 370 Kb PDF file
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14:00
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Online Market World Expo 2007 - Masa
Kasahara
Masa attended this trade show. He will talk about the show in general and in
particular legal issues surrounding the web and blogging. A discussion will
follow.
- Powerpoint slides - 1.69 Mb PDF
file
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15:00
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Vintage Computer Festival - Sellam
Ismail
"Sam" will stop by to preview the
Vintage Computer Festival to be
held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on November 3rd and 4th.
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16:00
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Adjourn
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Other items:
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