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Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost

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mike73900@gmail.com wrote:

> 
> 
> The late Julian Noble was a very fine mind, and his article on
> implementing FSMs in Forth was a gem. Please, everyone in this group,
> organize an effort to locate a copy of his book, Scientific Forth, and do
> to it what was previously done to Thinking Forth; ie, digitize it and put
> it online, lest it be lost to obscurity.

I have received an email from Josef Gabriel who asked me to place this on 
here.

> Hi Paul,
> 
> I have tried to post to the "Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific
> Forth from being lost," but google has rejected each post.
> 
> I bought a "Scientific Forth" copy to scan. I am currently working with
> Paper Upgrade Project, http://www.paperupgrade.org/, to scan the book. 
This
> should be completed the third week of January. This will give the project 
a
> good base from which to start.
> 
> In regards to rights, I have tried contacting the listed book publisher,
> Mechum Banks Publishing, with no luck. I think I have located Julian's
> widow, Harriet. I think we may get a better reception from her if someone
> who has contacted her before now contacts her. I'd would like to 
informally
> nominate C.G. Montgomery because cgm worked with Harriet to secure 
Julian's
> archive at Taygeta.
> 
> Please pass this message on to clf. Please inform me if you chose not to
> pass on the message.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Josef Gabriel (jg)
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Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost mike73900@gmail.com - 2013-12-19 01:26 -0800
  Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2013-12-19 11:37 +0100
    Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-19 02:50 -0800
      Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-12-20 19:49 +1100
    Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost mike73900@gmail.com - 2013-12-19 08:48 -0800
      Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2013-12-20 11:31 +0100
    Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 07:36 -0800
  Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-12-19 10:49 +0000
  Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2013-12-19 17:15 -0500
  Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2013-12-20 02:57 -0500
  Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-12-24 08:37 +0000
    Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-12-24 17:24 +0000
    Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost jg <josefg@gmail.com> - 2014-01-16 22:44 -0800
      Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost jg <josefg@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 20:42 -0800
        Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-01-22 10:39 +0000

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