Vintage Computer FEstival Zürich 2017 (PWJ76)

I was at the Vintage Computer FEstival (VCFe) 2017 in Zürich at Rote Fabrik. I sold some of my stuff and it was very interesting to see all those things working. The video was shot in parts before the event begun. It got pretty crowded in the afternoon.

[jjqformerlyjailbreak]

I enjoyed the second hand experience. 👍
Thanks.

[BaumInventions]

The nice thing about Retro Stuff is... That its timeless now... Even 3 Years later its still a sweet video.

[Peter_S_]

*_Beautiful!_* My heart almost stopped when I saw that ADM 3A at 0:33. Oh the memories!

[NivagSwerdna]

Tektronix brings back some memories. Thanks for sharing

[vcfeswitzerland]

This video was made before opening hours, hence very little people in the video.
We just closed and had nearly 800 visitors over 2 days, excluding kids. Much fun was had by everybody !

[mark]

Lot of hardware beauties here!! Awesome!

[LJChimera]

Great vid, thanks. Loved the DEC stuff :)

[Elektronaut]

Wow das sieht cool aus! Danke für die Eindrücke

[xpicknicker]

Danke für das Zeigen... cool was die Geräte von 1970-1979 noch so können (das Terminal insbesondere) und der Apple 1  :)

[greywolf]

Those were the good days when I felt like I actually learned useful programming in assembler

[Peter_S_]

HAHA! at 3:49 I see the Apple ][ running subLOGIC's FS1 (which was later bought by Microsoft) and the tag says 1988. I had A2FS1 on cassette tape 8 years earlier, when most people did not yet own a floppy drive. The cassette included a copy protection scheme which worked on the limited bandwidth of most tape decks. If you ran a copied tape, the simulator would allow you taxi but as soon as you lifted off the ground the game would halt and the instrument readouts on the 4 lines of text at the bottom of the screen would be replaced with "HALT! STOLEN AIRCRAFT".

[laptop]

Neat seeing video of a working 4014. I'm looking forward to the PiDP 11, although I should probably finish building the PiDP 8 kit first...

[timb]

Cool stuff.. seeing the Tektronix 4014 brings back memories - I used them back in the day and after them, I used a Tek 4125 on a regular basis! What I'd love to see is an Evans & Sutherland MPS system... great monochrome vector graphics system (ran off a PDP-11 or VAX via a unibus adapter) - thanks!

[douro]

Juergen Mueller's LittleGP-30...a cycle-accurate LGP-30 running on a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA. I wonder if he got the inspiration for that from the running LGP-30 at the Uni. Stuttgart. Personally I think the Diptronics switches look a bit more true-to-life than the Omron ones in the one being displayed. If I were to build one I would probably put it in an oscilloscope case.

Oh...and the monitor in the background is showing the data layout in the simulated drum memory.

[AmitChaudhry]

most stuff is even older then me btw nice video

[douro]

Any idea what was in that TI99/4a Expansion System besides the floppy disk drive?
Kevin Horton (kevtris) got his EC-130 going a few months back; quite surprisingly it took very little work to get it going again.

[rbmk__]

the screen draw on that terminal was really something

[windward]

Digital VT100 Computer Terminal actually running, amazing, I wonder where they found a replacement CRT? An Altair 8800 in home brew livery, I have actually read the Popular Electronics issue that showcased it on the cover in 1975 over two months Jan and Feb, but was revisited time to time. I was very interested in what applications they would do with a general purpose computing machine, and I though it would be a good way to teach computer programming without the need for main-frame time. Which actually was realized with the Apple II as far as academia was concerned for undergrad programming. I actually own a VIC20 although I would be afraid to turn it on without first recapping the power supply. Commodor PET with the ultra strange keyboard. An Apple LISA, which was on the cover of BYTE magazine, it look really amazing and capable as compared to the Apple IIe. I was surprised not to see any IBM PCs, like the original PC, XT, AT, and finally PS2. The AT keyboard model F with its buckling spring key mechanism and new layout was as important as the AT computer hardware if not more so, its lineage leads directly to the common 104 key keyboard layout we see today as based largely on the model M (Type F successor).

[douro]

I see you were selling a PDP-8 and a PDP-11. What model was the PDP-11?

[SakiSkai]

Can someone please tell me the song name at 2:30? I've been searching this genre of music for a long time, brings back lots of memories from Gran Turismo 4 on Playstation 2.

Great video as always!