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 Homecomputer Professional.

Planned Exhibitions:

CP/M on the road - portable computing in the early 80's

Only during the 80's one could get away with calling these barely schlepables 'lightweight' and 'compact'.
By Gaby Chaudry

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

Evolution of the Smallest Macintosh - the LC

The Macintosh LC series is eventually the cutest Macintosh II ever made. This exhibit will explore the origin and development of the LC series, from an 020-based weakling to a hefty 040 suitable for surfing the net. The 'LC' appelation has many interpretations, but the one choosen here is "Low Cost". Because of this and its compact size, it found its way into many homes and schools. Its desktop space saving footprint also made it ideal for secretarial use. Sadly, the design did not survive the age of the Power Macintosh, but there is a rare upgrade from the 040 to a PowerPC CPU.
On display will be: a Macintosh LC running System 6.0.8 and Multifinder, an opened LCII to show the compact arrangement of components, and boards from the 030 LCIII and the 040 LC475. Discover how easy it is to take apart an LC and reassemble it - no screws required!
By Edwin Groot

64er Productive - How That?

It sounds unbelievable, but people used the breadbox even for serious tasks.
By Thorsten Kuphaldt

C64 and Farming

HABSys (Holzaufnahmebuchsystem), an enterprise resource planning system for forestry and it's development from an initial C64 version until today's Windows version - and don't get fooled, there are still today C64 Versions in use!
By Wolfgang Kainz-Huber

Dawn of Multimedia - Commodore Amiga

A Commodore Amiga 1000 with various peripherals, including even a hard disk. Everything is in a 100% original working state.
By Joachim Schwanter

Amiga 3000 - the Productivity Engine

As offspring of the second generation Amigas, this machine features a 25 MHz 030 CPU, 2MB Chip and 16 MB Fast-RAM and a SCSI hard drive. The new graphics controlers did provide a whole new set of high resolution graphics modes, quite pleasant to support the new Workbench 2.0. Software development will be the main topic of this exhibit.
By Markus Brenner

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..
ByFrank 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

ATARI - not only games

Applications and programming on ATARI 8-Bit Computer. We present programming environments and serious applications for the early 8-bit Computer Models of ATARI(ATARI 400/800, XL, XE), together with new programs and hardware developments.
By ATARI Bit Byter User Club (ABBUC e.V.)

"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

Olivetti Desktop Computer

Varoius Olivetti computers from the 70s and 80s will be shown. THis includes a P6066, a P604 and of course one of the few Z8000 dektops ever, the M20.
By Michele Perini

Educational Computing

A Display of software and hardware used for educational purpose in school and atr home. Displayed machines: CBM 4064, VC 20, Atari 800.
By Herbert Krammer and Bernd Sedlmair

Process Measurement and Control on a C64

A display of various examples to use a C64 with quite simple add on's (like temperature sensors or relais cards) as a measurement and control system. Furthermore the usage of as receiver for time standard signals (DCF77) will be shown.
By Matthias Schmitt

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

DEC PDP-11/73 under 2.11BSD UNIX

In the early 70's DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) developed the PDP-11 family of 16 bit mini computers. The PDP-11 was the primary platform for the then new and upcoming UNIX OS. This exhibition shows a PDP-11/73, one of the last models of PDP-11 produced and brought to market in the mid 80's. With features as TCP/IP networking, the 2.11BSD UNIX OS is the pinnacle of 16 bit UNIX. Along with a working PDP-11/73 some contemporary peripherals and some printed circuit boards of PDP-11 machines are shown.
By Jochen Kunz

Hard Drive Technology

A DEC RK05 drive will be used to display the technical background of hard drives, and all the fun one can get out of 'scoping around.
By Gerd Schuenemann

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 John Zabolitzky

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