June 2025
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:30

Start of the Meeting - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman

09:30

Announcements, Rumours & Gossip - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Discussions included:

• Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers? (including Kevin's LSI-11)
• Where we should go to celebrate the Annual CH Ting Memorial Barbecue next month?
• The upcoming Maker Faire Bay Area and and Vintage Computer Festival West.
• Suggestions for SVFIG speakers
• Video (15:15)

09:45

The World's Smallest Robot - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will present an introduction to Object Oriented Programming using Win32Forth.

Video (15:55)

Shared screen with speaker view video - Passcode: v%Ay0NU$

Slides

10:11

Screenshot

10:13

Open Discussion - Random Access, Round Table, Replays, Ad Hoc - Kevin Appert
Topics are likely to include

• What was your first version Forth? On what platform did it run?
• Trade shows, Maker Faire, public outreach.
• Elevator pitch for Forth / printing a bookmark list of resources?
• SVFIG meeting locations: Chabot, Applied Biosystems, Inc., Dyson Wedge, Cogswell College, HP Oak Room
• Video (59:40)

11:01

CoSy Tools- Bob Armstrong
Bob will discuss CoSy's interactive notebook: uniquely integrated and open from the chip up as only possible with Forth which enhances time accounting and its file synchronization vocabulary.

Video (1:01:02)

12:02

End of the Meeting

Future

Creole Forth and Picar-X, Part 2 - Joseph M. O'Connor
Joseph will continue his presentation of Creole Forth for Python which he used to develop commands for the Picar-X robotic car.

Smart Token System - Don Golding
Don will discuss a combination of Color Forth constructs: a packet like structure for the cell.

Getting Started with arrayForth - Greg Bailey
"I will present a video on the simple process of downloading, installing, and using arrayForth 3."

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

Building GUIs in Forth, without the Gunk - Xuyang Chen

Fiji - Jack J. Woehr
Fiji
Fiji Language

The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong

Other Items:

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

eForth using the Subleq OISC processor

uEforth for Web

David Husband's Multitasking ZX81 Forth (1983) - Manual

F-PC - a Forth system optimized for IBM-PC, XT & AT machines running DOS

F-PC version 3.6

64 Forth

Forth Articles and Blogs

The Evolution of Forth, an Unusual Language

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Stackosaurus - An archive of old PDP-11, Forth, and related material

Computers

My PDP-11 Projects - FIG-Forth V 1.3.3 - Peter Schranz

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

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

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics