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SVFIG Saturday, March 27th at
New
Location Stanford University Building 550 Room
200
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The Peterson Building
(Building 550) and its relationship to Terman Engineering Center (the
former meeting place) can be found on these maps - Slide1 or Slide2.
There is open parking on
weekends. Park in any A or C or metered space.
Enter the building from
Panama Mall. There will either be someone on duty to let you in or a cellphone
number to call.
Wireless Internet access is
anticipated (though not guaranteed) at Stanford, so bring your wi-fi enabled
laptop.
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Meeting Agenda to: George
Perry |
Tentative Meeting Agenda for
March
xx:xx --- Coffee and a Chat
xx:xx --- Lunch We will walk to
The Treehouse by
Tressider Union. Here is the
menu.
xx:xx --- Introductions, Announcements,
Rumors, and Random Access
xx:xx --- Task Interface in Forth for eCOS
- Part 2 - John E. Harbold "I'll present the object-oriented
interface to the task interface in Forth for
eCOS. This will describe the way to
create and manage tasks in Forth."
xx:xx --- Break
16:00 --- Adjourn
How you can help SVFIG:
- Bring your speaker and topic suggestions
to every meeting!
- Your input for and participation in next
year's Forth Day is always welcomed.
Coming to SVFIG:
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Engineering TV Fifty engineering
topic channels, four new episodes per week.
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Botbash 2000 Video A cheapie video
of a May 2000 robot rumble in Mesa, AZ.
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WAV File and Soundcard I/O Software
Using Win32Forth - Andy Korsak This software was written for
amateur radio applications. Andy has suggested that it might be useful to look
at his code in advance of his talk. Contributions to this work-in-progress
would be welcomed. You can download and view his sound card software on the
Win32Forth
group (membership required), or here.
Solicitations for presentations and
assistance:
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Mitch Bradley's Forth in C A
volunteer is needed to present and demonstrate this software.
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PowerMops Forth for the Mac -
Kevin Appert Kevin Appert: "Mops
is an open-source, full-featured, object-oriented stand-alone programming
language for Mac OS X descended from the much-beloved NEON. I now have a
working installation and when I know enough to do a good demo, Ill be
doing a talk. Id be grateful for any help and advice from anyone familiar
with PowerMOPS.
- PowerMops on
SourceForge
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Furthering the Cause of Forth -
John Rible We'd be pleased to hear about John's new outreach project
when it is formulated.
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Carbon Mac Forth - Kevin
Appert Kevin Appert: "Mac Forth
was the first programming language used on the bench to bring up the Mac and
the first programming language with Mac API available to the public. I have
substantial interest in the current version, Carbon Mac Forth and Im
hoping to do what I can to promote it. I'm unable to contact Ward McFarland,
the Carbon MacForth guy. If anybody knows a good way to buy a copy, please fill
me in! His email appears full and he doesn't reply. The phone number is out of
service, but the website is still up. Im hoping that if Carbon Mac Forth
is now an orphan, we can make all the source and executable available on our
website.
Please indicate your interest for these
topics:
If you have anything you'd
like to talk about in March, please contact Kevin
Appert. |