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zeltophil Home and Educational Computers and Calculators from the Soviet Union
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zeltophil realcomputers e.v. cancelled
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 ====== Exhibitions ======
-**[[https://vcfb.de/2020/call_for_participation.html.en|Exhibit Registration is Still Open!]]**
 The following exhibitions have been registered:
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-[[en:forth|To the details page]]
+[[:forth|To the details page]]
-===== PDP-Hackerspace =====
+===== PDP Hackerspace =====
 A number of PDP enthusiast will meet on Saturday and Sunday at the "TUPS" convention house in Neustrelitz to spend our time at the VCFB in company. We will work on a number of projects, mostly DEC PDP related. Visitors can virtually look over our shoulders by video call or can discuss the operation of their PDPs with us. Michael will show a part of his collection. Jörg will share tips and tricks for use of his PDP-11 tools such as PDP11GUI, BlinkenBone, UniBone, UniProbe, etc.\\
 //Jörg Hoppe, Michael Löblich, Angelo Papenhoff und andere//
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 [[en:soviet_computers|To the details page]]
+===== Pong and the Forgotten Arcade Machines =====
+This exhibition is about a relatively short and memorable epoch that began with the discovery of the television as a video game platform by Ralph Baer and ended with the step by step replacement of the discrete gaming hardware by computers. In the center of the exhibition are Atari's arcade machines. In these machines impressive game features are realized with simple and easy to understand logic circuitry that is likely a mystery to many of today's programmers and game designers. Understanding this technique is very educational as the circuitry is also the basis of computers. It is thus the foundation of today's digitization that should not be forgotten. As will be shown in the exhibition, the game machines and their interfaces are still very timely and should thus not be considered out of date. Further details will also be discussed in the [[vortraege_workshops#pong_und_die_vergessenen_atari-hardware-games|talk]] on this topic.
+//Wolfgang Nake//
+[[en:pong|To the details page]]
+===== Three Decades of Collecting Mania – Collection Focussing on Computers from Germany and Electronic Instruments =====
+We will give virtual guided tours through our exhibition. We will show, among many other things, tally machines from Germany. Our tours include TTL-based Harvard computers with rope, diode-matrix and core memory, computers for medium sized enterprises and microprocessor based multi-user machines from manufacturers such as CTM (Computertechnik Müller), Dietz and Nixdorf. Also, transistor based programmable desk calculators and connection and memory programmable control computers from Germany will be on display. In addition the collection includes mini computers from DEC (PDP-8/L and PDP-8/e), Wang (2200-C3 and VS5) and many other types of machines, servers, PCs, consoles, artifacts, circuit boards and other things that are of importance in the history of computers. Running machines of CTM and TA (Triumph Adler) are shown together with methods to backup data on different kinds of storage media (we plan to show floppy disks, QIC-tape drives, MFM-hard disk drives). In addition the collection contains a short history of electronic musical instruments such as vacuum tube based piganinos and synthesizers, keyboard based instruments with electronic sound creation, but also classic analog piganinos.
+Note: This exhibition is a work in progress so the exact setup during the festival remains to be completed. In addition we will show early digital sound machines (mainly from Casio Computer Co., Ltd) and many toy keyboards. A Casio keyboard with barcode reader to input compositions can be experimented with.\\
+//Rainer Siebert//
+[[en:sammelwut|To the details page]]
+===== Update Computer Club Collection at Uppsala University =====
+Update is a long-lived co mputer club founded in 1983 by students and staff at Uppsala University. Our considerable collection includes minicomputers like DECSYSTEM-2060, PDP-11/70, PDP-12, and VAX 8650, several of them in working condition, and microcomputers such as Apple II, Commodore 64, SPARCstations, and the Swedish classic ABC80. We will showcase a mixed pick from the collection.\\
+//Update Computer Club / Datorföreningen Update//
+[[en:update|To the details page]]
+===== PDP-10 Games =====
+<del>I will provide some PDP-10 games for visitors to join:
+  * MacHack VI: Greenblatt's chess program.
+  * Maze: Hunt other participants in a 3D maze.
+  * Zork: Classic text adventure in its original form.</del>\\
+//Lars Brinkhoff//
+The exhibition has unfortunately been cancelled!
+[[en:pdp-10_games|To the details page]]
+===== Depot Lottery in the Computeum =====
+At a secret place in lower Bavaria a collection of computing artifacts is stored, enclosed in standard containers and not accessible to the public. The 'Lagerlotto' (Depot Lottery) opens a little window to the collection. In each episode a random container is selected by an 'independent expert' (yes, we will really do it randomly!). The container will then be searched, opened and the content presented. The 'Lagerlotto' is intended as a series that will be continued if viewers find it interesting. \\
+//Hans Franke//
+[[en:lagerlotto|To the details page]]
+===== realcomputers e.v. =====
+<del>About the creation of a retro data center, currently in its creation phase. The focus will be on Unix servers and not on home computers.</del> \\
+//Markus H. Maussner//
+The exhibition has unfortunately been cancelled!
+[[en:realcomputers|To the details page]]
+===== Historic Calculating Tools from Abacus to Curta =====
+Before electric calculating machines and later on computers were used for calculations, many different (mechanical) tools were invented to reduce the effort. This exhibition will show a number of milestones of this development, from the simple abacus and slide rule to a variety of (electro-)mechanical calculating machines up to the Curta hand calculating machine, a master piece of precision mechanics.\\
+//Herbert Lange//
+[[en:rechenhilfen|To the details page]]

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