Forth Day SVFIG ZOOM/In Person Meeting --- THIRD Saturday!

go to: forth.org/zoom for 2025 SVFIG Forth Day Live/Zoom Meeting **The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try! =+ There will be an IN-PERSON meeting at Stanford! Details below. Notify Kevin Appert as soon as possible if you are attending in person! forther@comcast.net =+ *** PLEASE NOTE 09:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time) START TIME
WHAT TIME IS IT? PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL BE OFF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BY FORTH DAY! PST IS AN HOUR DIFFERENT! PST IS (GMT-8). ***All durations and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire. We will not be keeping strictly to this schedule. Some talks may run long or short and some things may be dropped or switched around. =*
# AGENDA =*= 09:00 --- WELCOME --- Kevin Appert, Program Chairman and Master of Ceremonies This will incorporate the starting of the Zoom recorder. =*= 09:02 --- Fireside Q&A --- Charles H. Moore (confirmed!)
Chuck will give give a short intro to tell us how he's doing and then will take questions for a short time. We may do the questions in chat and select among them or Chuck can pick. If you can't fit it on an index card, don't ask it. =*=

> 09:29 --- Screen Shot --- Everyone

> We'll pause to record the roster for posterity. Remember that the whole meeting is recorded for YouTube.

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> 09:30***The roles of FORTH in Blockchain Technologies and Beyond --- Liang Ng

> We investigate the roles of FORTH in Blockchain related technologies and novel decentralised schemes beyond Blockchain, with the potential of reinventing the Internet, but without the huge footprint required by Blockchain.

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> 09:40***Matrices and Object Oriented Programming in Win32Forth---Bill Ragsdale

> “Win32Forth gifts us amazing tools for productivity and program density. A matrix system is developed in 45 lines of code.”

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> 10:00***6809 Single Board Computer with "Software-Defined Peripherals" --- Strick

> Peripheral emulation in a Rapberry Pi Pico 2, on the vintage 8-bit 6809 bus.

> https://github.com/strickyak/tfr9/blob/main/tfr905h/tfr905h-3d-kicad.png

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> 10:10***Forth FPGA Synthesis---Brad Nelson

> “I'll demonstrate my Forth implementation of FPGA synthesis for the iCE40UP5K.”

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> 10:30***Hands-on Review of DurexForth --- Samuel Falvo II

> “It's a quick hands-on demonstration of DurexForth for the Commodore 64 platform. This is quickly becoming a second favorite Forth environment, after PygmyForth. But, it's not without its warts.”

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> 10:50***Is FORTH your First Computer Language? --- Douglas Hammed

“*Exploring how a second or more Computer Language can help or impeded coding.
*Are LLM,s helping or hurting Development in FORTH?
*Conversely, does FORTH help or detract in AI work (ChatGPT, etc.)
*Studies in Psychology of Computer programming as an aid in Coding in any Language
*Psychological tools and studies that may help improve the Programming process.”
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11:10***A Journey Through the FORML Archives --- Kay Lack
“We'll look at some ideas from the annals of Forth and FORML. I will talk through and demonstrate Wil Baden's flowchart character set, Dr. Ting's distillation of Forth to a single word, and Chuck Moore's infamous BASIC interpreter.”
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11:25***SLURP, MMS, and NOVIX: My First Ten Years of Forth --- John Rible
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11:45 Lunch and Online Chat
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> grey zone

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13:00***The J1 and Descendants: Forth Stack Machines --- Christopher Lozinski
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13:20***Coming Back to Forth --- Andrew McKewan
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13:40***Wordle Solver in Forth --- Andrew McKewan
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14:00***CoSy Annual Report 2025 --- Bob Armstrong
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14:20*** GreenArrays Update --- Greg Bailey
Greg will give a short intro and run his fresh-from-the-oven Green Arrays tutorial videos.
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16:30 --- ADJOURN
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Message Kevin Appert for more info! Send messages through Meetup-message, email, etc. =*= Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup
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IN PERSON MEETING
PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR PLANS TO ATTEND IN PERSON >forther@comcast.net SVFIG will meet in the Peterson Building (Building 550) on the campus of Stanford University. =*= Parking: There is open parking on weekends. You may park in any A or C designated areas or metered space. There is no need to feed the meter on the weekends. Do not park in any place marked with 24/7 restrictions! Read the signs! =*= Building Entrance: Make your way to the Panama Mall entrance of the Peterson Building. The door is labeled Building 550 - Mechanical Engineering Design Group. Do not ask Stanford students to let you in and do not enter the building behind them. There will be a radio telemetry doorbell (to the left of the door) to gain entry.
=*= Here is the googlie map showing Peterson: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zoG341Pv7BDjwijUA =*= I recommend parking in the lot at the corner of Santa Teresa and Lomita: https://maps.app.goo.gl/QwkQSGj6H2MRXthX8 =+ For maps and parking info, go here: (ignore the old dates) http://forth.org/svfig/03-2020.html