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

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On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 12:37:03 AM UTC-8, Paul E Bennett wrote:
> mike73900 wrote:
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> > The late Julian Noble was a very fine mind, and his article on
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> > implementing FSMs in Forth was a gem. Please, everyone in this group,
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> > organize an effort to locate a copy of his book, Scientific Forth, and do
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> > to it what was previously done to Thinking Forth; ie, digitize it and put
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> > it online, lest it be lost to obscurity.
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> I have received an email from Josef Gabriel who asked me to place this on 
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> > Hi Paul,
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> > I have tried to post to the "Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific
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> > Forth from being lost," but google has rejected each post.
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> > I bought a "Scientific Forth" copy to scan. I am currently working with
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> > Paper Upgrade Project, http://www.paperupgrade.org/, to scan the book. 
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> > should be completed the third week of January. This will give the project 
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> > In regards to rights, I have tried contacting the listed book publisher,
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> > Mechum Banks Publishing, with no luck. I think I have located Julian's
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> > widow, Harriet. I think we may get a better reception from her if someone
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> > who has contacted her before now contacts her. I'd would like to 
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> > nominate C.G. Montgomery because cgm worked with Harriet to secure 
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> Julian's
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> > archive at Taygeta.
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> > Please pass this message on to clf. Please inform me if you chose not to
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> > pass on the message.
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> > Thank you,
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> > Josef Gabriel (jg)
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I handed the book is currently be scanned by the Paper Upgrade Project. I'm hoping for the best. The left hand pages are a bit too close to the binding, so the binding might have to be sacrificed :(

The search for Julian's widow, Harriet, continues. I am hoping to hear something by the end of the month. I just realized his children maybe easier to find... a last resort.

Thinking Forth is hosted at SourceForge. I don't see the FSL as a repository on Github. That might be nice to have an FSL repository packaged with Scientific Forth. 

Thoughts?

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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