Hi Jeff, As an interesting side note on this, FORTH was created on the IBM 1130. Chuck Moore wanted to name it FOURTH, but the 1130 only had 5 character file names. In 2011, I contacted Chuck to see if he had and left over materials from the 1130 FORTH days. He found some old listings and sent them to me, but I didn't notice what he had sent. Last year, Carl Claunch asked me if I had ever gotten anything from Chuck, so I went back and looked. I had about 12 pages of code, and I forwarded it to Carl. It turned out to be the entire code for a very early version of FORTH. Carl has been working on it to get it running again on his 1130. Regards, Bob On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 10:21 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Charles H. Moore, the inventor of FORTH. We have done the inventor of C, of BASIC, why not FORTH?
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On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:20 PM Evan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Here's my annual request for suggestions of people who could keynote at VCF East.
- The person must have general appeal to our audience. It can't be someone who did something very narrow.
- Nobody should reach out to speakers on VCF's behalf: just looking for suggestions right now; official communication must come from VCF officers.
- We're looking for people who personally did awesome things -- not someone who worked in sales/marketing, and not someone who is a modern-day author/historian (like me!) about what other people did. (Exceptions can be made, but generally we're looking for the first-person angle.)
- They don't have to be a celebrity, but they must have a resume that is keynote-worthy.
- We want new people: we've done the usual suspects too much.
- Obviously we prefer people who live within a couple of hundred miles of InfoAge.
- It would be great to have women or people of color!
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