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| Friday July 16, 2004 |
|  Curt Vendel Steve Golson | | | Atari 7800 20th Anniversary | | Curt Vendel of the Atari Historical Society and Steve Golson will take a look back at an incredible game console. The Atari 7800 was slated for original release in June of 1984 despite the lackluster videogaming market. But due to a change in management at Atari, the console was delayed by two years and wasn't introduced to market until 1986. This restrospective will look back at the development and evolution of this game console that, for 1984, was far ahead of its time.
Steve Golson was part of the original design team at General Computer (the company that designed the 7800) and will discuss the origins of the 7800 and the hardware and software that was developed for Atari. |
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|  | | | Preserving Computing's Past Through Simulation | | SIMH is the Computer History Simulation Project, an Internet-based collective aimed at preserving computing's heritage by simulating systems of historic interest. Started in 1993, the project now encompasses more than 20 systems, including the DEC PDP-1, PDP-4/7/9/15, PDP-8, PDP-11, and VAX; the Data General Nova and Eclipse; the HP 2100 series; the Interdata 16b and 32b series; the IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, and System/3; and many others. SIMH has provided a vehicle for running the earliest versions of Unix (including the first 32b port), for reconstructing lost software systems such as XVM/DOS, and extending the development life of "nearly current" systems like 2.11BSD for the PDP-11. SIMH is constantly being expanded to include new systems, additional capabilities for existing simulators, and greater interactivity with "real world" peripherals such as networks and graphics.
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|  Balint FleischerAdam Mendoza | | | Juxtaposing Past with Future: Utility Computing | | Balint Fleischer and Adam Mendoza of Sun Microsystems will give a retrospective of storage networks and discuss how everything old is new again.
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| | Saturday July 17, 2004 |
|  | | | A Personal History of Computing | | | Art ruminates on the 35 years he's spent in the computer industry, and the changes he's witnessed along the way. |
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|  | | | Resurrecting an IBM 360/30 | | | The IBM 360 Model 30 was the baby of the line when it was introduced in 1964. In New Zealand in 1982 Lawrence and some friends acquired a 360/30 system and set about getting it working again. This talk gives some idea of what was involved, from moving, recommissioning and debugging, through to booting DOS and compiling COBOL programs. |
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|  | | | PDAs 1973-1992 | | | Twenty years before Apple's marketing team invented the term to describe the Newton, there were PDAs, and they were good! The purpose of this presentation and the corresponding exhibit is to set the historical record straight, based on three years of research and first-person interviews. This talk will feature hands-on demonstrations. |
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|  | | | Personal Computing in the Early 1970s | | Jon Titus developed the Mark-8, one of the first hobbyist computer kits. Many people think personal computing (what we used to call "hobby" computing) started with the IBM PC when it was introduced in 1981. But the decade previous to that holds a much more interesting history.
Jon will describe the design of the Mark-8 and, through a combination of photos, recollections, and technological descriptions, take us through a tour of the state of hobby computing of the time. |
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