go to: **forth.org/zoomfor the SVFIG Zoom Meeting

=====Fourth Saturday of February, 2026.=====**

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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 Daylight SavingsTime) START TIME
To determine your offset, go to Google and ask "what time is it in Palo Alto, California, USA?"
***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
Ting's stuff, storage books, what to do with old computers?
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Finding Parts & Turning PCBs --- Greg Bailey
Unless some farm excitement comes up I'll make it to lament about how interesting it is to find parts at this time in history, and how outrageously expensive fast PCB prototyping has become with in the US.
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Screen Shot --- Everyone
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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A Simple Forth: From F83 and Back Again --- Andrew McKewan
This new 64-bit indirect-threaded Forth has lineage from F83, Win32Forth and other personal Forths, along with community influences.
I'll talk about two things:
> 1. Bootstrapping a new Forth model on a host OS
> 2. Inner interpreter model & x86-64 implementation
We may use all the time on #1 depending on audience feedback (that's ok).
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>TBD --- Bill Ragsdale (Cancelled)
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CoSy Update … Aligning Cats --- Bob Armstrong
Maybe it's like “hearding cats”? Bob will tell us.
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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:
More goat rodeo.
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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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