Welcome to Update!
Update is a club for everybody who loves computers, in Uppsala and the whole world. We do stuff with computers of all kinds, be it hardware, software, modern computers, historic computers, different architechtures, Unix/Linux, multiuser systems, programming and other things.
Our premises at Svartbäcksgatan 65 is where we tinker with computers from our collection, work on our own projects or just hang out.
We also arrange lectures and exhibitions, work on various
projects, and we have a large collection of new and old
computers, components, documentation and software.
2024-03-23, 19:00 – 21:00 Lecture: Forth — your favourite programming language that you don't know yet by Bjarni Juliusson (Update)
Location: Update's rooms at Svartbäcksgatan 65 and online in our online lecture room.
The talk introduces Forth, a curious programming language that quite possibly doesn't look like any other language you have seen. Despite never quite making it into the mainstream in its 54-year life so far, it has made it into space on several occasions, including on the ESA asteroid-lander Philae, the NASA Saturn probe Cassini, and the Swedish satellite Freja. Both a language and an interactive development environment, Forth takes a minimalist approach to syntax (there isn't any) and provides maximum flexibility for you to develop your own application-specific languages very close to the hardware. It's hard not to like it!
More info about our lecture series can be found at the Updateringar wiki page.
Everything about Update and our activities is on Update's wiki (in Swedish).
If you want to donate hardware, books or other computer related things, please contact us.
If you want to become a member of Update, read more here!