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 immagination hostage, spellbound to stay up all night in front of a CRT, highjacked into a world nobody else could see, lightyears away, sophisticated without any connection to known reality and incredible simple and logic at the same time.

Planned Exhibitions:

Real Life Incarnations of Terminal Emulations

Standard terminals of the 70's and 80's. See all the termcap entries as real hardware.
By Gaby Chaudry

BSD History

BSD Unix in various Flavours on different Hardware.
By 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

The PET Evolution

From the PET 2001 until the end of the 'big' Commodores

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