Exhibition

The exhibition is the central part of the VCFe. A collection of some of these wonderful and secret devices, that changed the world during the last 20 years - and carved our memories.

Who can't feel again the intrigue and miracle that took our imagination hostage, spellbound to stay up all night in front of a CRT, high jacked into a world nobody else could see, lightyears away, sophisticated without any connection to known reality and incredibly simple and logical at the same time.

Special Focus User Interfaces: From Keypunch to Mouse.

Planned Exhibitions:

Punch Line ... a Key Punch in Action

See and operate an all real and working classic mainframe key punch. Key in your own mainframe programm - and let it compile an run on a live CDC mainframe during the VCFe-Exkursion.
By John Zabolitzky

Scientific Desktop Calculators - an Extinct Species

At some point between Slide Rules and Pocket calculators, Desktop Calculators where state of the art
By Thomas Falk

KC85, a Graphics Workstation?

Picture manipulation has always been a though but much desired application for home computers. This display will show what is possible with an East German 8-bit system..
By Frank Dachselt

ROBOTRON-Computer

K8915 - BIC A5105, differences between heavy weight East German office equipment and the so called "empty Bird" educational computer.
"Unsere Mikroelektronik ist nicht klein zu kriegen"
By Enrico Graemer

Apples and Lemons

With all the success of their Apple ][ and Macintosh fruits, the Californian store also had some quite sour Lemons to offer.
By Martin Käser

"Half-a-Vax" - The Symmetric 375

A BSD 4.2 Unix-Box. The developer (Bill Jollitz) wanted to own "half a VAX 11/750", hence the name. NSC 32016 CPU 10 MHz, 2 MB RAM. Jollitz later ported BSD to the Intel 386, which became the foundation of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD etc.
Furthermore a PC535 will be on display. Supposed to be best docuumented computer in the world (so who else knows whats on level 5 of their motherboard ? - Julian does! NetBSD 4, 32M Ram, 2 SCSI busses, 8 serial, 0 graphics.
By Julian Stacey

Amstrad / Schneider Mikrocomputer

A collection of Amstrad micros (In Germany sold under the Schneider brand until 1987).
By Stephan Sommer

Archiving the Content of 'Classic' Media

A life demonstration of how to preserve the content of outdated classic computer media, or how to migrate your old disks and tapes into the modern world of PCs and emulation. By Markus Brenner

Siemens 2002 Emulator

A low level Emulator (Written in Fortran) for the worlds first fully transistorized computer, the Siemens 2002 will be on display.
By GfhR

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