October 2023
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:31

Start of Meeting

09:32

Forth Day is Coming - Kevin Appert
Forth Day is November 18th, the third Saturday of the month. Presentations are solicited. There will be a watch party at Stanford.

09:34

What I'm Currently Working On - Samuel A. Falvo II
"I will present a quick jaunt through Shoehorn and the project I'm using it on. A recap/status of ForthBox:20AE project.”

Video (37:32)

Slides

Shoehorn

ForthBox

Kestrel-1

10:12

Day Determination - Date to Day-of-Week - Bill Ragsdale
How to find the day for any date.

Video (28:53)

Slides

10:41

Halloween Haikus - Brad Nelson
"I'll give an interactive tutorial in building Halloween themed Forth Haikus."

Video (48:05)

Forth Haiku

11:29

More CoSy - Bob Armstrong
Bob made a pitch for Chuck Moore to receive ACM Turing Award. “The discussion of my last talk on accounting vocabulary in CoSy mainly centered on how do you learn or teach a unique vocabulary with concepts outside the main stream. Both Forth and APL face this issue. I'll offer to show the vocabulary and tools in CoSy to aid in its learning.”

Video (32:07)

11:59

End of Meeting

Coming

AI on CORE I LLMs - Don Golding
Don plans to speak about Large Language Models. CORE I circuit board status: "they were setting up to assemble the boards yesterday, will get them by Wednesday next week. Next meeting I can give a demo of the board if I didn't make any unfixable mistakes."

CORE I Applications - Don Golding and Demitri Peynado
“Demitri and I would like to give a quick 15 minute update on CORE I then discuss the possible uses for a CORE I / Forth Computer.”

Direction Finding - Andrew Korsak
Andy is planning to present this application on Forth Day.

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

Fiji Language - Jack J. Woehr

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

Other items:

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

Components

Software Applications

SMART Antenna Controllers Firmware

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

OpenBSD 3.9

OpenBSD "Blobl!" song about a closed firmware blob (3:57)

Open Firmware Song

Open Firmware Song performance by Mitch Bradley

APL Blossom Time

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Retro Computing

A Dual-CPU Computer You Can Rewire with Software

The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other