July 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

09:33

Announcements - Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman
Discussions included:

• Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
• The Annual CH Ting Memorial Barbecue will be held on Stanford's campus
• The upcoming Maker Faire Bay Area and Vintage Computer Festival West.
• Suggestions for SVFIG speakers
• Video (5:00)

09:35

File Access Using OOP - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will discuss the first steps for securities analysis using Forth and Object Oriented Programming.using Win32Forth.

Video (41:40)

Slides

10:16

Screenshot

10:17

Decoding ICE40 - Brad Nelson
"I'll present my progress towards on-device FPGA synthesis using Forth on the pico-ice and it's ICE40, discuss its bitstream format, and consider the challenges remaining."

• Video (57:00)
• Slides
• A visualization of the purpose of each bit in one tile of of the ICE40 FPGA.
• A visualization of the connection options in one tile of the ICE40 FPGA.

11:12

Omni*Web: the Secret Codes to Break Technofeudalism, Inspired by 101 Years of Hilbert Hotel Paradox - Liang Ng
"I adapted Hilbert Hotel Paradox by using hash codes or hash numbers as hotel room numbers, to help ordinary users appreciate their applications, and investigate their relationships with the lookup mechanisms in Forth colon definition words."

• Video (25:20)
• Slides

11:40

CoSy Update- Bob Armstrong
Bob will talk about the current state of CoSy.

Video (22:00)

12:01

End of the Meeting

12:30

Annual CH Ting Memorial July Barbecue at the Treehouse at Stanford - Treehouse at Stanford

• Photo - Attending (left to right): John Rible, Brad Nelson, Doug Hammed, Kevin Appert, John Glauvitz, and Dave Jaffe

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

Forth Articles and Blogs

Forth Programming Books

Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer

Other Jobs

Green Arrays

Forth People

Products in Forth

Software available at MPE

Misc Forth Stuff

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

Computers

Components

Software Applications

Using Forth as VHDL (Virtual Hardware Definition Language)

A digital logic designer and circuit simulator

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Windows 95’s look and feel are more impressive than ever

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

PiDP 11 - PDP-11 emulator running on a 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once