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| - | ====== Exhibits 2017 ====== | + | ====== Exhibits 2018 ====== |
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| - | ==== Apple I (1:1 clone) ==== | + | |
| - | 1976 | + | |
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| - | One of the first Vintage Computer Icons | + | |
| - | 6502 CPU, 4 KByte RAM | + | |
| - | Developed by Steve Wozniak, known as "Woz" | + | |
| - | USD 666.66 (1976) – without keyboard or display | + | |
| - | Just 200 were made. The few remaining Apple I's fetched up to 900.000 USD at auctions. | + | |
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| - | // Martin Decurtins // | + | |
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| ==== Open Source Replicas of Historical Computers ==== | ==== Open Source Replicas of Historical Computers ==== | ||
| - | Early computers (1950s to early 1970s) were the birthplace of programming. But they are hard to keep running. Over the last few years, many Open Source Hardware projects have created faithful replicas of these machines. They allow hands-on experience with these old systems, and allow "software archaeology" to show how far we have come. Shown are replicas of the LGP-30 (1950s), PDP-8 (1960s) as well as the pioneering 1970s (Altair 8800, KIM-1, Cosmac Elf, and OSI-300). All of these are actually easy to build yourself – Open Source projects that often hide very low cost modern parts underneath faithfully recreated old front panels. | + | Early computers (1950s to early 1970s) were the birthplace of programming. But they are hard to keep running. Over the last few years, many Open Source Hardware projects have created faithful replicas of these machines. They allow hands-on experience with these old systems, and allow "software archaeology" to show how far we have come. Shown are replicas of the LGP-30 (1950s), PDP-8 (1960s) as well as the pioneering 1970s (PDP11/70, Altair 8800, KIM-1, Cosmac Elf, and OSI-300). All of these are actually easy to build yourself – Open Source projects that often hide very low cost modern parts underneath faithfully recreated old front panels. |
| // Oscar Vermeulen// | // Oscar Vermeulen// | ||
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| // Ulrich Fierz // | // Ulrich Fierz // | ||
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| - | ==== We will show some Commodore Machines ==== | ||
| - | -Rüegg Nägeli Exophor von 1980 (Swiss Variant of the Commodore 3032). | ||
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| - | - C64 with Floppy. Who doesn't know it... | ||
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| - | // Oliver Walkhoff // | ||
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| - | ==== Reviving an IBM System 360/30 ==== | ||
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| - | The IBM System/360 was the dominant mainframe architecture in the 1960s and 70s. The 360/30 was a small machine, introduced in 1964, and found its way into countless universities and companies. It used simple 8-bit data paths and registers internally, but its microcode provided the full IBM 360 architecture used in larger machines - that sometimes were hundreds of times as fast. Only a few Model 30s survive today, and only one is thought to be in a working state at present. Shown at this exhibit is an original front panel, now driven by a faithful recreation of the original hardware in an FPGA. | ||
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| - | //Lawrence Wilkinson // | ||
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| ==== MS-DOS: IBM’s revolution that came to dominate them all ==== | ==== MS-DOS: IBM’s revolution that came to dominate them all ==== | ||
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| - | ==== Olivetti the computer pioneers ==== | + | ==== ICL1501 and Datapoint 2200 ==== |
| - | From the Olivetti Programma 101 (first desktop programmable machine in world history, 1965), to the mighty P6060 with basic and integrated 8" floppy disks from 1975 , the first Olivetti modern desktop (M20 with PcOS from 1982), and the first portable and iperportable Olivetti (M15 from 1987 and M10 in 1983) to the world known M24 (first DOS desktop by Olivetti in 1983). | + | |
| - | // EsoCop / Stefania Calcagno // | + | Both these machines are personal computers from a time before the microprocessor : they have all the hallmarks of the personal computer : targeted to one person, video display & keyboard, local CPU and memory, and a mass memory. |
| + | Both machines were widely used in their time, yet are hardly known these days. | ||
| + | The Datapoint 2200 has an important influence on the computer : it is for this machine that Intel developed the first 8bit microprocesser : the i8008. Alas development ran late and the 2200 therefore has a CPU basen on low integration TTL chips. | ||
| + | // Jos Dreesen // | ||
| - | ==== Tektronix 4014 / Tektronix 4052 ==== | + | ==== Commodore VIC20 : the friendly computer ==== |
| - | There were no high-resolution graphic workstations in the 70-ies, right ? | + | Released in 1980, the VIC-20 was Commodore’s first low-cost computer aimed at the home market, and was the first computer to sell over one million units. |
| - | Wrong ! | + | |
| - | The Tektronix DVST (Direct View Storage Tube) Technologie used the CRT itself as a storage element. This enabled a 1024x1024 resolution without needing memory inside the machine. | + | Based around the VIC chip (Video Interface Chip), it had colour, sound, and it's release was supported by a large library of games. The marketing slogan of the VIC-20 was “The Friendly Computer” and it was released with a user guide that encouraged the user to programme it using the in-built BASIC language, starting an entire generation of kids on their path to a career in IT, as it did today`s exhibitor - Rob Clarke, Linus Torvald - the creator of Linux, and none other than Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and Space-X. |
| - | We show the Tektronix 4052 graphical workstation (1978), wit a bitsliced 16 bit CPU, and a Tektronix 4014 graphical terminal (1974), often used in conjunction with the big computers of the time. | + | |
| - | // Jos Dreesen // | + | Come and see some of those early games, learn to program a VIC-20 in BASIC, and maybe even win a VIC-20 of your own! |
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| + | // Rob Clarke // | ||
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| - | ==== MSX systems ==== | ||
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| - | From 1982 some Japanese manufacturers tried to standardize the homecomputer. The result were the MSX range of computers. Succes in german speaking countries remained limited, as people stuck to their C64's, but in the Far East and Southamerica MSX became a big success. | ||
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| - | Also Philips of Holland did manage to create a local success out of their NMS range of MSX computers. | ||
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| - | We show the MSX-1 Sony HB75P and the MSX-2 Philips NMS8250 | ||
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| - | // Roman Seewer // | ||
| ==== The C64 : alive and kicking !==== | ==== The C64 : alive and kicking !==== | ||
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| Today PDP-11 hardware can be supported by micro-Linux computers. | Today PDP-11 hardware can be supported by micro-Linux computers. | ||
| So we can build small running systems, even if the vintage hardware is defective, incomplete or | So we can build small running systems, even if the vintage hardware is defective, incomplete or | ||
| - | too heavy to show. On exhibit are 3 projects: | + | too heavy to show. On exhibit are 4 projects: |
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| + | UniBone - connecting a Beaglebone LINUX-computer to the DEC Unibus environement. | ||
| LSIBox - free standing QBUS cards implement a 11/73 running RT-11, RSX-11 or 2.11BSD. Sexy outfit! | LSIBox - free standing QBUS cards implement a 11/73 running RT-11, RSX-11 or 2.11BSD. Sexy outfit! | ||
