December 2017 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

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SVFIG YouTube Channel

Videos: morning (0:59:28) - afternoon (2:44:12)

10:00

Coffee and a Chat

10:30

Quantum Computing Becomes Routine - Jack J. Woehr
"We're still years off from a generally marketable quantum computer, but it's obvious that it's really going to happen. I.ll identify resources on the web that will let you get started with quantum computing right now."

11:30

Lunch
We enjoyed lunch at The Treehouse.

13:00

Floppy Emulator - Dwight Elvey
Dwight spoke about the HxC Universal Floppy Disk Drive Emulator he purchased and his plans to port Forth to it.

13:10

Non-Coding DNA in c.Ruddii - CH Ting
"Ruddii is the smallest free-living proto-bacterium, with 173802 bases and 227 identified genes. Forty sequences of 14764 bases are non-coding DNA. I hope to find how a cell.s .computer. is .programmed. with these non-coding DNA sequences. To do so, I have written a pattern matching program to identify repeating patterns in these sequences. There are interesting features that I have observed, but so far no smoking gun has been found. I will show you the progress I have made as well as the challenges I have encountered."

14:00

Break

14:20

Port of the Sockpuppet API to the Cortex-M0 - Robert Sexton
"I'll demonstrate MPE Forth Lite running under WINE and compile binaries that can be installed with the built-in DFU (Device Firmware Update) boot loader onto the STMF072B Discovery board. The Forth prompt is available via a USB CDC (Communications Device Class) interface without any special dongles."

15:20

Random Access
We'll engage in discussion or view videos from Forth Day or about the Apollo Program onboard computer.

16:00

Clean Up and Adjourn

Other items:

Forth

Forth - 79 Standard Conversion by Robert L. Smith

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

Stackosaurus - fig-FORTH

Pygmy Forth

Pygmy Forth User Manual

Pygmy Forth for DOS

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

Misc Forth Stuff

Computers

Control Data Corp. CDC 6600 - Computer History photos - Seymour Cray - Supercomputer (video 4:30)

PDP-11

PDP-11 Handbook

Computer Engineering - A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design

W11 Simulator in VHDL

PDP2011 VHDL

PDP-11 Peripherals Handbook

PDP-11/20 Processor Handbook

PDP-11 Forth User's Guide

Chips

Components

Software Applications

Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler for Machine Code

Space Applications

Programming Languages other than Forth

Operating Systems

Utilities

Open Observatory of Network Interference

Hardware

The Amazing $1 Microcontroller

70th Anniversary of the Transistor

Surface Mount SchmartBoards

Review – Schmartboard SMT Boards

MSP430F2013 MSP430F2 MCU 16-Bit MSP430 Embedded Evaluation Board

Other Books

Manuals & Documentation

Articles

The Fight to Fix It - Kyle Wiens & Gay Gordon-Bryne

The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint - David C. Brock

Applications

Stores

Robots

Games

Companies

Lectures

People

Surplus Houses

Meetings

Videos

Courses

Trade Shows

Podcasts

Personal Computer History

Tutorials

Education

Contests

Blogs

Other

Q&A with Ben Pfaff, VMware’s Principal Engineer & Open vSwitch Leader

Colorado Springs Open Source Meetup screens - Bob Armstrong (video 9:18)

W6REK/B HF Beacon (Ham radio transmitter)

Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day - 40 Years Ago