December 2017 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others


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SVFIG on Google+ - SVFIG on YouTube - SVFIG on YouTube Live

SVFIG YouTube Channel

Videos: morning (0:59:28) - afternoon (2:44:12)

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:30

Quantum Computing Becomes Routine - Jack J. Woehr
"We're still years off from a generally marketable quantum computer, but it's obvious that it's really going to happen. I.ll identify resources on the web that will let you get started with quantum computing right now."

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:00

Floppy Emulator - Dwight Elvey
Dwight spoke about the HxC Universal Floppy Disk Drive Emulator he purchased and his plans to port Forth to it.

13:10

Non-Coding DNA in c.Ruddii - CH Ting
"Ruddii is the smallest free-living proto-bacterium, with 173802 bases and 227 identified genes. Forty sequences of 14764 bases are non-coding DNA. I hope to find how a cell.s .computer. is .programmed. with these non-coding DNA sequences. To do so, I have written a pattern matching program to identify repeating patterns in these sequences. There are interesting features that I have observed, but so far no smoking gun has been found. I will show you the progress I have made as well as the challenges I have encountered."

14:00

Break

14:20

Port of the Sockpuppet API to the Cortex-M0 - Robert Sexton
"I'll demonstrate MPE Forth Lite running under WINE and compile binaries that can be installed with the built-in DFU (Device Firmware Update) boot loader onto the STMF072B Discovery board. The Forth prompt is available via a USB CDC (Communications Device Class) interface without any special dongles."

15:20

Random Access
We'll engage in discussion or view videos from Forth Day or about the Apollo Program onboard computer.

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn


Other items:

Forth
Forth - 79 Standard Conversion by Robert L. Smith
Stackosaurus - An archive of old PDP-11, Forth, and related material
Stackosaurus - fig-FORTH
Pygmy Forth
Pygmy Forth User Manual
Pygmy Forth for DOS
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
Misc Forth Stuff
Computers
Control Data Corp. CDC 6600 - Computer History photos - Seymour Cray - Supercomputer (video 4:30)
PDP-11
PDP-11 Handbook
Computer Engineering - A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design
W11 Simulator in VHDL
PDP2011 VHDL
PDP-11 Peripherals Handbook
PDP-11/20 Processor Handbook
PDP-11 Forth User's Guide
Chips
Components
Software Applications
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler for Machine Code
Space Applications
Programming Languages other than Forth
Operating Systems
Utilities
Open Observatory of Network Interference
Hardware
The Amazing $1 Microcontroller
70th Anniversary of the Transistor
Surface Mount SchmartBoards
Review – Schmartboard SMT Boards
MSP430F2013 MSP430F2 MCU 16-Bit MSP430 Embedded Evaluation Board
Other Books
Manuals & Documentation
Articles
The Fight to Fix It - Kyle Wiens & Gay Gordon-Bryne
The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint - David C. Brock
Applications
Stores
Robots
Games
Companies
Lectures
People
Surplus Houses
Meetings
Videos
Courses
Trade Shows
Podcasts
Personal Computer History
Tutorials
Education
Contests
Blogs
Other
Q&A with Ben Pfaff, VMware’s Principal Engineer & Open vSwitch Leader
Colorado Springs Open Source Meetup screens - Bob Armstrong (video 9:18)
W6REK/B HF Beacon (Ham radio transmitter)
Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day - 40 Years Ago


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