July 2014 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

SVFIG on Google+ Hangout- long url - tinyurl

Videos - morning (1:29:20) - afternoon (2:55:04)

09:45

Coffee and a Chat

10:15

Irreducible Complexity - CH Ting
"The STM32F407 chip and the software development examples for the STM32F4-Discovery Kit represent complexity to the extreme. I hope to peel back the dense fog with stm32eforth720. eForth now executes from Page 0 of the virtual memory, the dictionary can extend into the RAM memory space, and the debugged code can be saved to flash memory for turnkey applications."

Slides - 723 Kb pdf file

11:30

Lunch
We ate at the Treehouse.

13:00

What's New?
Every month! Bring some material!! Be on the lookout!!!

13:30

Data Loss Prevention & Recovery Methodologies - John Glauvitz

Slides - 146 Kb pdf

Free Software - 195 Kb pdf

List of backup software

Macrium Reflect disk imaging and cloning software

14:15

Ad Hoc, Ad Lib, Non Sequitor
We always find something to talk about.

15:00

Break -

14:45

Planning
We'll begin planning this year's Forth Day. We'll think about a project for the 2015 Maker Faire. We'll plan what we'll need to plan.

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Forth on Raspberry Pi

More Forth on the Raspberry Pi

Forth for MSP430

Forth Tutorials

Forth CPUs

Chips

Computers

Software Applications

Old Software

More Free Software (some dead links)

Microsoft Small BASIC

Programming Languages other than Forth

Utilities

Hardware

Linux Stick

Raspberry Pi Model B+ Bundle

Raspberry Pi - Model B+ (8GB Bundle) at Sparkfun

Raspberry Pi Model B+ Datasheet

MinnowBoard

Forth Programming Books

Other Books

Manuals

Forth Articles and Blogs

Articles

How to Bypass and Reset the Password on Every Operating System

What Are the SysInternals Tools and How Do You Use Them

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Senior Software Engineer - Low-level Systems - Amazon Corporate LLC - Seattle, WA

Senior Software Engineer - Game Services - Amazon Corporate LLC - Irvine, CA

Lectures

People

Green Arrays

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

The Golden Age of Basic

CP/M & Gary Kildall

IEEE Milestone for the Invention of CP/M Operating System Receives National Public Radio Coverage (page 3)

Recognizing the Legacy of Pacific Grove Inventor Gary Kildall (with audio 5:30)

Pacific Grove Inventor Finally Honored for Creating First PC Operating System (with audio 4:02)

Late Recognition for a Computer Pioneer Who Missed a Big Prize

Milestones: The CP/M Microcomputer Operating System, 1974 (with video 1:40:20)

Tutorials

Other

LockerGnome

Worst Things for Sale

Cesium Atomic Watch

Radioactive Fiestaware

Glomar Explorer

APL Problem Solving Competition

Conway's Game of Life in APL

Conway's Game of Life example