Tuesday·11·July·2006
Vintage Computer Festival Europe 7.0 ahead //at 09:50 //by abe
It’s only seven weeks to the most important vintage computing event in Europe, the Vintage Computer Festival Europe (VCFe) in Munich, which for the first time will be three days this year because of May the 1st being a Monday this year and an official holiday in Germany and some of the swiss cantons (at least Zürich). So the VCFe 7.0 will take place from April the 29th to May the 1st 2006 in Munich and it’s focus this year is:
Home Made Brains
Kit-Computers and Individual Designs
I’m currently thinking about which old hardware I’ll present at this year’s VCFe. There are a few ideas flowing around in my head:
- Old x86 laptops (1989-1996). This was my exhibition last year, but ayca, my i486 Toshiba laptop is broke (probably the display controller) and the “new” Compaq LTE pony hasn’t been setup yet. Nevertheless, I’ll bring my (nearly) everyday ThinkPad bijou with me since it’s now 10 years old and therefore ontopic now. Yeah!
- The HP 9000 Apollo Series 400 I got from dwalin and dyfa, if I manage to get a NetBSD installed on that box.
- Buying a tux case but installing some old hardware in it instead of the current FOX board. On the other hand: There should be at least a Linux running on that box.
Anyway, I’ll be there, many other Symlinker (at least dino and Venty) also will be there. And I hope to see you there, too. :-)
Oh, and btw: One wish to the Debian community regarding the VCFe: Perhaps someone who’s familiar with the Debian m68k Port could give a talk about how Debian plans to save this port although the old hardware isn’t fast enough to fit the requirements for inclusion in a Debian release. This would give a really interesting talk about old and new hardware. Talks can be held at least in German or Englisch IIRC. TIA. :-)
Update 16:26h: I thought of this mail by Wouter Verhelst about how modern ColdFire computers
could run buildds for a hybrid m68k and ColdFire port when writing
this paragraph. See also this Symlink story [German] about that topic.
Tagged as: Apollo, ayca, bijou, ColdFire, Debian, Hardware, HP, Linux, m68k, München, pony, Symlink-Artikel, ThinkPad, VCFe, Ventilator, Vintage
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