[svfig-announce] Meeting June 28, 2008

[Kevin Appert]

****COGSWELL WILL BE CLOSED AND NO OTHER VENUE IS AVAILABLE****
We will meet outside Cogswell's door and leave a trail of breadcrumbs 
when we go.

We have planned to execute the agenda detailed below, including 
an afternoon at the Computer History Museum.  It is urgent that 
you respond if you are planning on coming.  We need a headcount!
Send a message to me, forther.at.comcast.net!

SVFIG Meeting June 28, 2008 --- this Saturday

Starting At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive,  Sunnyvale, CA
Migrating to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View

Main page --> <<<http://www.cogswell.edu>>>
Directions --> <<<http://www.cogswell.edu/directions2campus.html>>>

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AGENDA
10:00  --- COFFEE AND A CHAT

10:15 ---  FORTH DAY 2008
Suggest a speaker or volunteer to speak!

10:30 --- BOOK TALK DEGENERATING INTO RANDOM DISCUSSION --- Kevin Appert
I plan to bring a few Forth Books and chat about them.  You're welcome
to bring your favorite weighty tomes as well.  Then we'll digress into 
some discussion impossible to predict.

NOON --- LUNCH
Some folks bring their lunch, some folks go to Togos.

13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS
(at Cogswell)

13:10 --- LOGISTICS and MAP BRIEFING
We'll discuss the migration to the Computer History Museum.

13:25 REFORM RANKS AT COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM IN MOUNTAIN VIEW

These are the activities I've advised the Computer History Museum 
we'll be partaking of:
	1:30 PDP-1 demonstration
	2:00 Babbage Demo
	3:15 Visible Storage (this is the full tour, over an hour)

http://www.computerhistory.org/

There is a "Highlights" Visible Storage tour you can do on your own
if you don't want the full-blast version.  See the schedule on the 
CHM website.


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The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but
please transmit verbatim or not at all.   Any font you like is
alright with me.

No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution this month please!

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Wireless Internet access is anticipated (though not guaranteed)
at Cogswell, so bring your wifi.

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Coming to SVFIG:
* Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING!

* PLANNING FORTH DAY 2008 - EVERY MEETING

* Andy Korsak has been working on accessing sound cards from
Forth for amateur radio applications.  His preliminary
work is posted at the Win32Forth Yahoo group under
files/users/korsak.  Membership is required to see the files.
If you don't want to jump through the hoops, Dave has posted
a recent version of the files here:
   <<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/SoundCardIO.zip>>>


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Check the SVFIG web site at http://www.forth.org/svfig/
for last minute changes to this schedule.
The most up-to-date meeting information is at
http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html

Many thanks to our wonderful Webmaster, Dave Jaffe.

Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and
discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list.
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Email me, Kevin Appert,  forther_at_comcast.net  (see the
return address)

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*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GETTING INTO THE MEETING ***

Cogswell  now secures its doors on weekends. There will be an
SVFIG member at the door unless he's gone to get coffee or pee
because he's had too much coffee.  He'll only be there BEFORE
the meeting to let you in so please try to get there before the start.
If you are attending an SVFIG meeting for the first time, please
bring along a printout of the agenda to identify your interest in
Forth and gain admission. If you arrive after 10:15 AM there
will be a number for you to call to alert someone of your presence
at the door. The front door will also be checked at intervals of 20
to 30 minutes to accommodate those without cellphones.

VERY IMPORTANT:
Do not under any circumstances let any stranger past the Cogswell
doors.  Those who are authorized to be inside have key-cards.
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