[svfig-announce] [Fwd: SVFIG Meeting --- June 23

[Kevin Appert]

SVFIG Meeting June 23  --- this Saturday

At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive,  Sunnyvale, CA

*** SEE IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT NEW SECURITY RULES AT BOTTOM OF THIS 
MESSAGE ***

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

We are likely to be in our usual room - 197 A and 197 B
Marked in red on this floorplan:
<<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/room-map.jpg>>>

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AGENDA

9:00 --- SURPLUS COMPUTERS PARKING LOT SALE
	This is at the NEW location in San Jose, not their old retail store!
	<<<http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/Main.aspx?html=location>>>
	For announcement with details, email me at forther_at_comcast.net

10:00  --- COFFEE AND A CHAT
	We'll be starting the talks late to accommodate those who want to have a look
	at the parking lot sale, but I expect the coffee will be there for those who want 
	to have a cup and a chat.

11:00 --- F# REVISITED --- CH Ting
	Ting will discuss the various functions of his current F# Forth implementation 
	and the problems he's seen in it .  He's pondering revisions and will explore 
	the direction the project is headed.  He is eager for discussion, critique and 
	input before he proceeds.

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

13:30 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS

14:00 --- MINIMAL INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTERS - 
		A Tale of Quirky Little Machines   --- Don Roberts	
	"Over the years Moore and Ting have developed instruction sets that carefully 
	balance a minimalist philosophy against the needs of program development 
	and efficient execution.  Practicality aside, what's the minimum number of 
	instructions needed to support universal computation?  Rather than theory, 
	I'll discuss a couple of examples including an actual machine built in the late 
	1960s with only 8 opcodes."

 
15:00 --- BREAK

15:15 --- SHAREWARE FREEWARE & TRIALWARE --- All Assembled
   Bring in the name of your favorite bit of download. Anything
   from violin tuners to packet sniffers is fair game.

15:45 --- THINK OF SOMETHING FOR NEXT MONTH
    This means you!  

16:00 --- ADJORN

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The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but
please transmit verbatim or not at all.   Do not exceed
recommended dosage guidelines.  Any font you like is
okay with me.  I prefer Ariel.

No Newsgroup posts or 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 SOON:
   * Bring speaker suggestions TO EVERY MEETING!


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

  *PLANNING FORTH DAY - EVERY MEETING

   *A Tour of TechShop is not planned at this time.
       Note that there are interesting talks there from time to time
	and if you're desperate to see the place on your own there 
	are ample opportunities.
       <<<http://techshop.ws/Events.html>>>

  *Don Roberts has another talk, probably for July: (this item should only be republished verbatim)
       FEFFF -- A Refactored P16 
"I finally found enough excuses to start building my own FORTH engine. Using Ting's P16 as the
starting point, I refactored the RTL architecture and instruction set in consideration of FPGA
characteristics.  The ALU uses only a few percent of a $25 Spartan chip, and all memory is
on-chip.  Synthesized from behavioral VHDL, simulation indicates a clock speed of about 40 MHz."

   *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.  If you don't want to jump through
   the hoops, drop Kevin or Dave a line and we might post
   it on the SVFIG site. 

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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 Webmeister, Dave Jaffe.

Preliminary agenda along with schedule updates and
discussion may frequently be found on the SVFIG email list.
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*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GETTING INTO THE MEETING ***

    Cogswell in cooperation with DHS, ICE and BATFFCAPB* now
secures its doors on weekends. There will be an SVFIG member
stationed at the door from 10:45 am to 11:00  to let in recognized
attendees. Admission at 10:00 AM is anticipated but not certain.
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
11:00 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.  Those attempting to signal with semaphore or Aldis
Lamp will be sold into the dreary bondage of the Dark Lord of 
Redmond.

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


*Bureau of Alcohol, Tabasco, Firearms, Fast Cars and Party Boats