I led PFIG, the Potomac Forth Interest Group, in the early 1980s. Some said the P was silent; others said the F. We met monthly in a rec center in Arlington, V

I led PFIG, the Potomac Forth Interest Group, in the early 1980s. Some said the P was silent; others said the F. We met monthly in a rec center in Arlington, Virginia to present member projects and discuss Forth topics. After the meetings, we would cross the street to continue our conversations at a Pizza Hut. Our roughly 30 members came from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Most of us were running some variation of FIG Forth on Z80- or 6502-based computers. Presenters would lug in their Commodore PET, Apple II, TRS-80, Kaypro II, Atari 800, or other bulky computer and monitor. Most projects were pure Forth software; some involved hardware connected to serial or parallel ports. I recall several variations of Forth data structures mapped to disk blocks. There was a Prolog implementation in Forth. I have many of the handouts buried in storage somewhere. On the hardware side, Forth translated English text into allophones and played them through Radio Shack's Archer SPO256 Narrator speech processor chip connected to a small amplifier. The system read Lincoln's Gettysburg address clearly until one of the 8 parallel port wires came loose. Demos!