The presentations take place in the "Medientheater" room. Some events take place in the "Signallabor" room on the 2nd floor. See the floor plan for directions. The presentations are streamed and the recordings will be released on media.ccc.de afterwards.
| Saturday, October 14th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentations in the Medientheater | Workshops |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Opening Event Stefan Höltgen and Fritz Hohl | IBM System/370 and 3270 Plugfest Jörg Hoppe Location: Exhibition |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Recovery of Software from the 1950 Whirlwind Computer Project Guy Fedorkow | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Vektorgrafik-Hardware für eine Whirlwind-Simulation auf einem Raspberry Pi Rainer Glaschick | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Plan 9: Das bessere UNIX Angelo Papenhoff | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Geometrie in Bunt – Das grafische Terminal Robotron K8918 Dirk Kahnert | IBM System/370 and 3270 Plugfest Jörg Hoppe Location: Exhibition |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Die Schickardsche Rechenmaschine wird 400 Jürgen Weigert | |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | MEGA65 – Peek the Past, Poke the Future Oliver Graf | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Making of: Transactor – Eine CBM-8296-Demo Bodo Hinüber | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Das Diskmags-Projekt: Katalogisierung und Texterschließung Torsten Roeder | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | How Can We Spot Future Retro Classics? Fritz Hohl | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Evening Break | |
| 20:30 - 23:00 | Musical Educational Event Rüdiger "Phonoschrank" Wenk, Kaspar Dornfeld and DJ Thunder.Bird | |
| Sunday, October 15th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Presentations in the Medientheater | Workshops |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | History of the Incompatible Timesharing System Lars Brinkhoff | IBM System/370 and 3270 Plugfest Jörg Hoppe Location: Exhibition |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Das Steckschwein – Ein 8-Bit-Homebrew-Computer Thomas Woinke and Marko Lauke | Soldering for Beginners: Build an Atari Punk Console David Vilhena Klein Location: Signallabor |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Wie schreibt man einen Emulator? Angelo Papenhoff | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | General Assembly of the VCFB e.V. Vintage Computing Festival Berlin e.V. Location: Signallabor (Room 2.26) on the 2nd floor | IBM System/370 and 3270 Plugfest Jörg Hoppe Location: Exhibition |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Ignored, Disposed of, Revived – Four Decades of Apple's Lisa Michael Engel | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | KC compact – Der letzte Heimcomputer der DDR René Meyer | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Closing Event Stefan Höltgen and Anke Stüber | |
This talk reviews work done jointly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Computer History Museum to recover software developed in the 1950s on the Whirlwind computer, noted as the first machine intentionally designed for graphical input and output, plus the first known use in a real-time application. This work covers conversion of the archived media, plus an environment for debugging and simulation, as well as a few examples of code recovered. The presentation is a companion to Rainer Glaschick's work on reconstructing the Whirlwind "Light Gun", the graphical input device developed by the Whirlwind team.
Language: English
Guy Fedorkow
As a collector, we often wish we would have bought some retro classics devices when they were cheaply available. This is not possible retroactively, but we can try to guess what products we can buy now or tomorrow for a good price that we will want to have in the future. To that end we have to ask ourselves how the price of an electronic device looks over its lifetime and what the criteria are that turn undesirable junk today in a beloved rarity tomorrow. This presentation wants to explore these questions by looking at the retro computer market as an example. This presentation is complemented by an exhibition on "Future Retro Classics".
Language: English
Fritz Hohl
This presentation is about the history and development of the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS), a unique operating created at the MIT AI lab in the 1960s. It ran on a handful of large 36-bit PDP-10 computers, each serving many users at MIT. The culture surrounding ITS strongly influenced the free software movement and the GNU Project. ITS was host to a number of influential programs and technologies, for example Maclisp, Scheme, Zork, Lisp machines, Macsyma, SHRDLU, Logo, Emacs, and the MacHack VI chess program.
Language: English
Lars Brinkhoff
The Lisa was Apple's first computer featuring a graphical user interface (GUI). Whereas previous systems developed at Xerox PARC never had a significant commercial impact, Lisa was intended to change this. Unfortunately, this turned out to be a failure – not least due to internal competition by the Macintosh at a quarter of the price, but also due to internal politics at Apple. Ultimately, the Lisa was relegated to be a high-end Mac and, in 1989, Apple buried about 2700 Lisas in a landfill in Utah to get a tax write-off. Still, the Lisa is not forgotten. In early 2023, forty years after its introduction, Apple and the CHM have published source code to the Lisa software, including system and application software – and there are alternative systems available such as Xenix, GEMDOS, and Smalltalk. Today, not only emulators for the Lisa exist, but work is also in progress to build a clone of the Lisa PCBs in order to repair existing machines or create new ones. This talk gives an overview of the history of Lisa's hard- and software and discusses challenges in maintaining, emulating and recreating the system.
Language: English
Michael Engel
Kids and teens aged 7 years or older can learn to solder at VCFB. We will build Atari Punk Consoles, easy to build synthesisers that use two 555 chips to give a range of different sounds. Open activity with drop-in, duration 60 minutes, suggested donation 5 euros. David Vilhena Klein
Jörg Hoppe
More information about the presentations and workshops is available in German.
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