== Group News ==
Let's target the next meeting for this coming Tuesday, June 18, at
6:30pm. I will try to reserve a room at the Tempe Public Library, so
we can evaluate their presentation tech.
I will plan to give a presentation this time.
As a group, let's try to come up with a list of ways we can all get
involved and improve the group. Here are some initial ideas:
- Reply to the "news" email with more news items.
- Reply to the "news" email with questions or comments on the news
items.
- Bring questions or comments on the news items to the in-person
meeting.
- Bring a new person to the meeting.
If everyone can get involved, even just a little, it'll add up and
help
strengthen this new meetup group.
== Hardware ==
GK on the EEVblog forum previously cloned the hardware of the
Commodore
PET 2001, and is now doing the same for the Tandy TRS-80 1.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/cloning-a-tandy-trs-80-model-1/
== Media ==
DTACK Grounded was a computer hobbyist newsletter published from July
1981 to September 1985 by Hal W. Hardenberg. Subtitled "The Journal of
Simple 68000 Systems", the newsletter was dedicated to the proposition
that the Motorola 68000 CPU could be used to build simple fast
computers. In 1981 this was a revolutionary idea.
The easy68k web site has archived all issues of DTACK Grounded.
http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/dg/
Shock and Awe VHDL Tutorial
An exhaustive introduction to VHDL as hardware description language.
http://class.ece.iastate.edu/cpre583/ref/VHDL/shock_awe_vhdl_adobe.pdf
== Meetups This Week ==
Phoenix Linux Users Group Meeting, Thursday 06-13 7:00pm @
Chandler PD Desert Breeze Substation
https://bit.ly/2IerLm1
Tech Tear Apart, Friday 06-14, 7pm--10pm @ HeatSync Labs
Presumably this is an electronics tear down event. I am trying to get
more details via the HSL Slack instance. If someone responds, I will
send an update.
https://www.heatsynclabs.org/
Electronicfest - Electronics Recycling and Swap Meet
Sunday 06-16 5:30am-10:30am @ The Pavilions at Talking Stick
http://electronicfest.com/
