[svfig-announce] Meeting February 23, 2008

[Kevin Appert]

SVFIG Meeting February 23, 2008 --- this Saturday

At Cogswell College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive,  Sunnyvale, CA

*** SEE IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SECURITY ***
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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 floor plan:
<<<http://www.forth.org/svfig/room-map.jpg>>>

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AGENDA
09:45  --- COFFEE AND A CHAT

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

10:15 --- ARMkey  --- C.H. Ting
"For the February meeting, I will talk about this little ARMkey, 
produced by my friend in Taiwan.  It is an ARM7 processor hiding in a 40 
pin DIP package trying to emulate an 8051.  It plugs directly in to a 
USB port, and pretends to be on a COM port.  I had it for years, but 
only recently found it is very interesting and can be very useful for 
many applications."
<<<http://www.offete.com/ARMkey.html>>>


11:30 --- A QUICK LOOK AT MATHEMATICA --- Tom Gregory
"I plan to do only an introduction to Mathematica and to
comment on the similarities to Forth that really appeal to me.
Mathematica has a lot more to it than I what I have used in it so far."
<<<http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html>>>

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

13:00 --- INTRODUCTIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, RUMORS, RANDOM ACCESS

13:30 --- INTELASYS
Michael Montvelishsky will demo music synthesis on the SEAForth24 (Look 
Ma, no PC!) and MIDI keyboard processing.

Charley Shattuck will give a tour of some of the new ColorForth features 
that will be released in the next couple of months.

John Rible and others will show some programming tricks that make for 
compact MachineForth code on the SEAForth chips.

<<<http://www.intellasys.net/>>>
<<<http://objectmix.com/forth/167923-new-seaforth-discussion-mailing-list.html>>>
<<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaforth,_Ontario>>>

16:00 --- ADJORN

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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>>>

* The world's second Babbage Engine is coming to town.  Maybe
we can have a meeting at the Computer History Museum and have
a look.  Ting should have an E-Forth written for it by then.


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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

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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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