August 2024
Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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09:31

Start of Meeting & Announcements- Kevin Appert, SVFIG Program Chairman

Video (3:15)

09:35

A State Machine for Data Translation - Bill Ragsdale
Bill will discuss using Forth's CASE statement as State Machine nodes to translate CSV files.

Video (31:00)

Slides

10:04

Screenshot

10:05

WebSerial Terminal for Esp32forth - Brad Nelson
“I've extended µEforth for the Web, allowing it to act as a serial terminal for Esp32forth using the Web Serial API.”

Video (40:15)

Slides

Web Serial API

Online serial terminal

10:45

The 2024 Vintage Computer Festival West - Dave Jaffe & Kevin Appert
"Kevin & I will present a photo review of the exhibits at this year's West Coast Vintage Computer Festival."

Video (43:30)

Slides

Program Guide

Jupiter ACE Forth Programming Manual

BEHEMOTH Microship

10:28

Touting CoSy Zoom - Bob Armstrong
Bob will tout the upcoming CoSy Zoom on Tuesday, Auguest 27th.

Video (14:50)

CoSy Zoom - August 20th (video 51:03)

11:34

Meeting Wrap Up & Forth Engine Idea

Video (24:44)

12:09

End of Meeting

Future

CORE I Update - Don Golding
Don will present an update on the CORE I Processor including a demonstration.

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 on Forth Day.

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

50 Years of Forth Speech - Chuck Moore (video 18:32)

Products in Forth

Misc Forth Stuff

Forth Spreadsheet - Craig Lindley

Adding a Third Stack to a Forth Engine - Rick VanNorman & Phil Koopman

Easy Forth - Another JavaScript Forth

Computers

Components

Software Applications

Space Applications

Space stuff

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Hardware

Other Books and Magazines

Juergen Pintaske Book's on Amazon - 1 - 2

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

Five-five-five: The Story of Interdesign Inc.

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Who Was Grace Hopper?

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Retro Computing

The Z80 CPU - 1976 to 2024 (video 18:48)

Z80's Secret Feature - Protected Mode (video 16:06)

Take the Z80 Challenge

Do You Recognize These Early 8-Bit Microprocessors? (Slideshow)

What is GPIB and is it obsolete?

An Altair Clone: Then and Now

Build a Pocket-Sized Altair Computer

1970s: Microprocessors: The Little Engines That Could

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

The History of the EEVBlog "Hand" Photo (video 14:58)

XU316-1024-QF60A-C24 Chip

XK-AUDIO-316-MC-AB Evaluation Board