December 2022
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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Zoom Chat |
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09:30 |
Start of Meeting |
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09:33 |
Localize Your Variables- Bill
Ragsdale
“Local variables were added to the Forth repertoire in the
1980s but are featured in few systems. ANS Forth skirts the issue. In this
presentation, I will describe the two forms of local variables in
Win32Forth."
- Video (27:00)
- Slides
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10:01 |
Forth Haiku - Brad Nelson
Brad will give us a
primer and update on Forth
Haiku.
- Video (32:59)
- Slides
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10:34 |
Forth Day Reprise: uEforth Graphics and Sound on the Web
- Brad Nelson
"Imagery and music come to uEforth on the Web! Learn
how complex interactive pictures can be built from a simple but powerful
vocabulary."
- Video (30:06)
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11:04 |
Programming Challenge - Moderated by Kevin
Appert
A Vintage Computing programming challenge to create a Christmas
star using the asterisk character.
- Participants
- Brad Nelson
- Bill Ragsdale - Seeing Stars
- Bob Armstrong
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Video (42:51)
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11:18 |
CoSy Update - Bob Armstrong
Just a few minutes
of CoSy news.
- Video (42:51)
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11:17 |
Promoting Forth - Kevin Appert
"I am planning
to present the expansion of my matrix package for mixed data by column using a
matrix defining schema (data dictionary), leading to math/access operators
selected by their operand format and overloaded operators."
- Suggestion to produce an introductory YouTube video on Forth
to include these topics:
- What is Forth?
- What is it good for?
- Getting started in Forth
- Embedded systems in Forth
- New Zoom url courtesy of Brad
- Current SVFIG Zoom meeting url redirected through
http://forth.org/zoom
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Video (5:14)
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12:00 |
End of Meeting |
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
- 15
Creative Uses for an Old Computer
- Chips
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Space stuff
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books and Magazines
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- The Transistor at
75
- PostScript:
A Digital Printing Press (with videos 3:44, 0:51, 1:57, 1:02)
- John
Bardeen’s Terrific Transistorized Music Box
- The
Story of the Transistor
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- How Ada Lovelace
used embroidery to create the first computer program
- Oral History of Chuck
Peddle (video 3:55:44)
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Videos
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Who Really
Invented the Thumb Drive?
- Retro Computing
- Retro PostScript
Fonts
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
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