Ausstellung

Die Ausstellung ist der zentrale Teil des VCF, eine Ansammlung all der wunderbaren und geheimnisvollen Gerätschaften die die Welt in den letzten 20 Jahre so stark verändert haben.

Wer spürt da nicht wieder den betörenden Zauber zurückkehren, der Gedanke an lange Nächte die man gefesselt durch den Bannspruch vor den Geräten verbracht hat, entrückt in eine Welt die niemand sehen konnte. Unendlich weit weg, kompliziert und bar jeden Vergleichs zum Gewohnten und doch so unbeschreiblich einfach und logisch.

Angemeldete Ausstellungen:

1000mal emuliert...

Standardterminals der 70er und 80er Jahre, all das was man nur dem Namen nach aus der Termcap kennt in Natura und Funktion.
Von Gaby Chaudry

Die BSD Geschichte

BSD Unix in verschiedenster Version auf vielfältiger Hardware.
Von Jochen Kunz

Apollo DomainOS

DomainOS was an early network operating system. Workstations could share their resources in the network transparently. Unix was added on-top of the native Aegis environment, both in System V and BSD flavours.

We will demonstrate a three-maschine DomainOS system interconnected with a proprietary Apollo token ring network (ATR). One of the machines is configured as DTP workstation with the Interleaf publishing system. Interleaf was the DTP environment of choice at that time, but it's user interface is pretty unintuitive compared to today's products.

More Info: DomainOS Archive

Intergraph Clipper

Intergraph started in the eighties as manufacturer of graphics systems based on DEC VAX CPU's. The limited number crunching abilities of this platform led Intergraph to the development of an own RISC CPU, Clipper, which was manufactured by Fairchild. For the time, the Clipper had excessive performance but it's success was limited as it hit the market too late.

We'll show a Intergraph 2430 workstation running CLIX 3.2, a Unix System V Release 2 derivative. The system uses the MGR windowing environment which is, compared to MIT's X Windows System, lean and fast. It also looks pretty different than most X-based environments.

More Info: Intergraph

Symbolics LISP machine

Symbolics was a producer of a family of systems with LISP as the native language environment. Their machines had proprietary CPUs which executed a machine code which was tightly coupled to LISP, and many basic LISP operations mapped directly to machine operations on this architecture. These machines were, for their time, very advanced and used in so-called "artifical intelligence" projects. From today's perspective, the artificial intelligence of that time was more what we know as object oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. We hope to be able to demonstrate a Symbolics 3640 system running Genera with 4 graphical terminals, all sporting the Super, Hyper, Meta, Alt, Shift and Control modifier keys on their keyboards.

More Info: Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum

Mixed Version & Mixed Architecture VMScluster

A cluster containing the two VMS platforms (VAX and Alpha) running different Versions of VMS (new and old ones together in one cluster). Many of the magnificent features of VMS will be demonstrated such as booting completely from a remote bootserver, transparent disks in a cluster, load balancing and monitoring. See Machines from the Alpha and VAX Series
By VAXbusters International

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Vom ersten Commodore bis zum Ende der 'großen' Rechner

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