December SVFIG ZOOM Meeting --- Third Saturday!

go to: forth.org/zoom
for the SVFIG Zoom Meeting
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Third Saturday of December.
It's this week!
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**The Zoom Room is open 24-7, stop by and give it a try!
**If Forth.org is down, you can go to the Zoom room via this direct link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89716879946?pwd=Umx2WlNqU0pjbFplb3M1YS81WUU4dz09
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There will be NO IN-PERSON meeting at Stanford! Zoom only!
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*** PLEASE NOTE 09:30 AM (Pacific Time) START TIME
***All duration and descriptions are approximate or perhaps entirely inconsistent with what will eventually transpire.
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# AGENDA
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Festive Starting of the Recorder
There will be a brief joyful interlude to mark the beginning of the monthly recording of the Zoom session. Recordings will be posted to the SVFIG YouTube channel!
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Announcements
Anybody heard from Dennis Ruffer?
Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
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Quantum Computing Update --- Jack Woehr
Jax persists in pursuit of Quantum Computing. An annual tradidtion!
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A Syntax and Design For Matrix Forth --- Bill Ragsdale
Expanding on Dr. Julian Noble's work of the 1980s, Matrix Forth has been brought up to date using Win3Forth with Object Oriented Programming.
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Screen Shot --- Everyone (Tentative)
We'll pause to record the roster for posterity. If you're on the lam, turn off your camera or log out for two minutes. Remember that the whole meeting is recorded for YouTube.
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Forth on a Homebrew TTL CPU -- Bill Buzbee
"Discussion of the implementation and performance analysis of a Forth-like language for the Magic-1 HomebrewCPU."
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The Advent of Code --- Andrew McKewan (Tentative)
https://adventofcode.com/
“The elves have good news and bad news ...”
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Space Invaders Clone in durexForth --- Samuel Falvo II
“A progress update on my on the Commodore 64 in durexForth.”
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CoSy Update --- Bob Armstrong
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Random Access, Round Table, Replays, Ad Hoc
Forth Day after-action review.
What was your first Forth? On what platform?
Trade shows, public outreach.
Elevator pitch for Forth / printing a bookmark list of resources?
Meeting locations from history, Chabot, ABI, Dyson Wedge, Cogswell, …? We need a list!
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ADJOURNMENT
The recording will be stopped without festivities. Good fellowship and conversation can continue in our tastefully furnished Zoom Room.
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Coming Next Month:
January!
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Message Kevin Appert for more info! Send messages through Meetup-message, email, etc.
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Zoom meetings are recorded and presented on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup
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