09:33:07	 From Kevin Appert, Program Chair : is Brad going to mute?  (ROFL)
09:33:58	 From paul durão : Spreadsheets use bcd ? VisiCalc did
09:35:18	 From Ken Boak : Kevin and All, This month I have been researching a UK computer from the mid-1960s. So as old a s me - 60. 

It was the first commercial computer to be manufactured in integrated DTL (diode transistor logic).

It's successors exist until this day.

Four  of us have been working on it, and we now have an assembler and simulator and can compute Pi to at least 512 places.

If there is some free time later I would like to tell you more about this mini-project.
09:39:14	 From Ken Boak : Pi to 512 places 

On a simulated Ferranti Argus 400 mini computer from 1965. 24 bit word size.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624


Stopped on halt instruction at 0x1085 after executing 14010569 instructions
09:44:01	 From Ken Boak : So we made contact with the guy (John Steele)  who designed the DTL logic for this machine, as his first job out of college in 1963.

He is delighted that we are resurrecting this forgotten CPU.
09:47:28	 From Chris (@UncensoerdNews) : Reacted to "So we made contact w..." with 👍
09:48:51	 From Bob Armstrong : Here's the float script in x86 Reva, underlying CoSy .
09:49:07	 From Bob Armstrong : https://cosy.com/4thCoSy/Code/lib/math/floats
09:51:50	 From Liang PC : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7616461/generate-a-hash-from-string-in-javascript
09:52:26	 From Liang PC : JavaScript 53 bit hash number, using 53 bit mantissa of IEEE 64 bit floating point number.
09:55:11	 From Ken Boak : I have also been looking at an early 16-bit microprocessor from 1976. The Ferranti F100-L

https://github.com/revaldinho/f100l
09:56:38	 From Brad Nelson : I believe x86 has BCD as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_BCD_opcodes
09:57:10	 From Ken Boak : I think the Z80 had a BCD correction instruction DAA decimal accumulator adjust
10:06:30	 From Ken Boak : So I spent most of April, researching ancient UK computers - 1948 to 1970.

This might be of limited interest and widely forgotten, but in April I captured as much as I could.
10:09:46	 From Ken Boak : I am threatening to do a presentation on May 10th.
10:11:41	 From Bob Armstrong : The first computer I had access to was an IBM 1620 . It was purely BCD , 40,000 numbers with the extra memory cabinet .
10:22:47	 From paul durão : Unix can cut and paste with the mouse only
10:24:06	 From paul durão : On eMacs u can start and stop selection
10:26:55	 From Liang PC : PDF for my presentation https://omnixtar.github.io/svfig/  

How to share my latest FORTHish word with the world? 
DJSON + Phoscript = Omni*Web 

email lsn95r@gmail.com
10:28:50	 From Ken Boak : Brad - thanks for your insight. We associate the mouse with the 16-bit era, but it was probably possible with 8-bit technology. 6502/Z80 etc.
10:30:13	 From Brad Nelson : Moreover there were folks that tried it on 8-bit systems like the C64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
10:30:33	 From Brad Nelson : (though at a time when 16-bit era had already commenced)
10:31:54	 From Brad Nelson : I also wonder how much of the 8-bit era was still trying to make light pens work. Most of the systems even into early 16-bit had that as an option.
10:32:49	 From M Edward Borasky (@znmeb) : I had GeOS on the C64. It was way too slow to be useful - kept swapping stuff in and out to the floppy drive. Then again, I was spoiled by HES 64Forth on a cartridge. :-)
10:46:27	 From paul durão : If you setup i2p what do u do for alternative to dns lookup ?
10:48:44	 From Richard Hair : I can see screen Omni*Web
10:54:43	 From Joseph O'Connor : Liang your YouTube channel is?
10:57:50	 From Liang PC : Noted. Just a minute.
10:59:00	 From Liang PC : https://www.youtube.com/@mi4metaprogramminginforth666
10:59:20	 From Joseph O'Connor : thx
11:08:31	 From Brad Nelson : Is the color syntax highlighting only or is it encoded somehow?
11:19:31	 From paul durão : So these are tags to macros ?
U wrote your own editor ?
11:21:40	 From Brad Nelson : I think he's using a colorForth like encoding with <24-bit index, 4-bit tag> Where instead of the 24-bits being used to encode characters instead it's an index into a name table.
11:28:44	 From paul durão : How do u make an index into a word ?
11:41:20	 From paul durão : How do u go from text of token to index 
To intern the symbol ?
11:41:47	 From Brad Nelson : Seems like he's got autocomplete that scans the dictionary?
11:59:23	 From paul durão : Lost the screen
12:33:09	 From paul durão : How do u encode the string ?