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Subject: Who's here
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Date: 13 May 91 11:56:31 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 8
Message 59        Sun May 12, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 11:32 EDT
 
Peter Brown makes an excellent point...many of us have been arguing with each
other for so long that we don't bother to introduce ourselves.  Certainly I
never posted an intro.  Time to rectify...

Hello Peter, Michael, Bob.  I'm Brad Rodriguez, and I live northwest of
Toronto.  I do freelance hardware and software design for embedded systems.  I
work mainly in assembler and (whenever I can) Forth; although I know C, I've
somehow managed to avoid professional work in it.  My latest hardware project
is a parallel-processing system using ten Zilog Super8s...how's that for
weirdness?

I've used Forth since around '78, but only got active in the greater Forth
community four years ago.  (First you attend a conference. Then you present a
paper at one.  Before long you're writing for various journals and wishing you
were being paid for it.)

These days I only work part-time, as I am pursuing a PhD in Electrical
Engineering at McMaster University.

                               * * *

Peter, I also have the dubious honor of being our local FIG chapter's
librarian.  We have about 10 megabytes of public domain and shareware Forth
software in our library -- including several PC Forths -- much of it
downloaded from GEnie.  I'll be happy to send you a copy of our library
directory if you wish; you can save yourself the cost of a download if we
already have it in the library.

I invite you to attend one of our local FIG chapter meetings.  The Southern
Ontario chapter meets the first Saturday of December, March, and June, and the
second Saturday of September, at McMaster University in Hamilton.  Usually in
room 417 of the General Sciences Building; call Dr. Nick Solntseff at (416)
525-9140 x3443 for details.  Special note: the upcoming June meeting has been
moved back two weeks, to June 15th.

- Brad
 Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
 B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | brad%candice@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
 "Shoes for industry!" | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca  (archaic)

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