VCFB 2017 Exhibitions Presentations and Workshops Stream Floor Plan Association Press Archive

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Lectures and workshops

The lectures and workshops take place in the "Bildungsraum" room, in the lecture area at the end of the Network Exhibition, and in the middle foyer. See the floor plan for directions.

Cray-1, Icon of supercomputing – How the machine came into the world and what happened afterwards

Language: German
Wolfgang Stief

MERAC's ancestors – A comparison of the first computers

Language: German
Rainer Glaschick

PenPoint: A revolutionary idea becomes a venture capital failure

Language: German
Fritz "cyberfritz" Hohl

Computer pioneer Konrad Zuse: Innovator and visionary

Language: German
Nora Eibisch

Computer History from Below: Reading Human Values in Artifacts

The Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington, began with the passion of the owner, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, for two particular artifacts – the DEC PDP-10 mainframe and the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer. The de facto curators, I and Mr. Richard Alderson III, empirically chose additional artifacts to craft stories that would be meaningful to a visitor base we were defining concurrently. We asked each other why these stories would be compelling and to whom. This inspired my research into a theoretical grounding for such questions. The work I will discuss relies on treatises on material culture regarding "reading" artifacts as historical documents; how information science conceptualizes the document; and as an operationalizing element, the theory and method of value sensitive design (VSD). I will discuss the application of VSD's tripartite method and its rich "toolbox" as an historical lens for a case study of the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), one of the earliest computer information systems supporting conversational interaction. Research to date supports my thesis that discovery of stakeholder roles and their values in a VSD investigation enriches sociotechnical narratives of historical technological innovation. Ian S. King (Living Computer Museum)

Hardware preservation: Preserving historical hardware as long-term digital archiving strategy

Language: German
Carmen Krause

The motivation to exhibit a terminal – The robotron K8911

Language: German
Dirk Kahnert

ABBUC: More than 30 years of Atari Bit Byter User Club

Language: German
Thomas Schulz

The development of the NDR Klein Computer and the TV programme "ComputerTreff" of the Bavarian television broadcaster

Language: German
Rolf-Dieter Klein

Making music with hardware – From singing printers to Game Boy orchestras

Language: German
Dr. Yvonne Stingel-Voigt

Closing Event

Language: German
Eva Kudrass, Anke Stüber

Bristlebots – Build your own toothbrush robot

Language: German
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin

A Commodore Amiga on a Raspberry Pi

Language: German
Sven Oliver Moll

Understanding and repairing a DEC PDP-11

Language: German
Jörg Hoppe, retrocmp.com

Soldering workshop: Pentabugs

Kids and teens aged 7 years or older can learn to solder at VCFB. We will build Pentabugs, small bug robots that can flash, beep and move. Abteilung-für-Redundanz-Abteilung e.V.

More information about lectures and workshops is available in German.