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 title = "Retro Computing - Vintage Computer Festival Zürich 2019"
-categories = [ "Retro Computing", "Vintage Computer Festival" ]
-date = "2019-12-08T09:37:22+02:00"
+categories = [ "Retro Computing", "Vintage Computer Festival", "VCF" ]
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 title = "Retro Computing - Vintage Computer Festival Zürich 2021"
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-date = "2021-11-29T06:43:34+02:00"
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+title = "Retro Computing - Vintage Computer Festival Zürich 2022"
+categories = [ "Retro Computing", "Vintage Computer Festival", "VCF" ]
+date = "2022-11-21T07:56:22+01:00"
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+
+## Intro
+
+This is the last vintage computer festival in Zürich in the "Rote Fabrik"
+(which has to be restorated after a bad fire back in 2012) - at least
+for now. It was held on November 19th/20th.
+
+It was back to what it was before the pandemic in terms of exhibits,
+the amount of people attending, the talks (which where held again this year).
+
+It's an ever growing community of exhibitors, most of them try to
+attend every year, so I'm just pointing out the new things, which
+catched my attention (the others can be seen on older blog entries
+of the series).
+
+This year we had challenges, so visitors could try their skills by
+solving puzzles or programming tasks at the exhibition desks. This
+is a good idea to get visitors more involved and it's not just a
+museum then, where exhibitors have to say 20 times the same stuff
+or people are just walking by the computers and making photos.
+
+I was sceptical in the beginning (basically because I don't like
+puzzling), but in the end I also did one or two of the challenges:
+trying to use a Lisa desktop and trying to get a message to Mastodon
+from an old Unix System V.
+
+## Local Heroes
+
+Again we had the ETHZ Lilith and Ceres as local Zürich computers, but
+this time also the group around Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud from the EPFL
+Lausanne. He showed some really interesting things.
+
+### Teaching Electronics
+
+{{< figure src="/images/blog/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022-electronics-teaching.jpg" alt="Teaching Electronics" >}}
+
+Those blocks are basically 74xxx series logic chips in a block with
+schematics on top. You use cables to connect them and form logical
+blocks like for instance a small adder with carry. This is much nicer
+to deal with than with breadboards and the real logic chips.
+
+### Smaky
+
+{{< figure src="/images/blog/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022-smaky-100.jpg" alt="Smaky 100" >}}
+
+This is a series of 8-bit computers, the first one based on Intel 8080, later on Z80.
+This one is based on a 68k processor. The really nice thing is the graphical interface,
+the keyboard and the mouse which feel absolutely modern.
+
+### Self-made computers
+
+On Youtube you can find a lot of people doing their own computer
+projects based on 6502 and Z80 CPUs. This one is a really early example
+of it (and totally without Youtube - the green one on the left with
+the high voltage sign and the cards sticking out as in a toaster):
+
+{{< figure src="/images/blog/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022-self-made.jpg" alt="Self made computers" >}}
+
+## Apple Lisa
+
+This is a computer you usually see not running and only behind some centimeters of glas.
+At the VCF you had the chance to experience the GUI (especially its speed, ahem).
+
+{{< figure src="/images/blog/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022-lisa-front.jpg" alt="Apple Lisa" >}}
+
+## CP/M
+
+Hidden in a corner were some really nice CP/M-based machines:
+
+{{< figure src="/images/blog/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022/retro-computing-vintage-computer-festival-zurich-2022-cpm-machines.jpg" alt="CP/M machines" >}}
+
+## Important Lessons Learned
+
+My IMC-2001 is still not running and I'm currently fighting all kind of
+broken stuff (keyboard circuit, power supply, broken ROM-chip). Not having
+an exact twin of this machine makes it hard to repair.
+
+..and yes, I know how to create a document on the Apple Lisa now. ;-)
+
+## Links
+
+* general links
+  * [Vintage Computer Festival Zurich](https://vintagecomputerfestival.ch): official webpage
+* Smaky (sadly a lot of the links are broken)
+  * [Smaky Mouse and Keyboard](https://www.informatiquegestion.ch/mouse-and-keyboard): close up images
+  * [Smaky machines](https://www.smaky.ch/chapitre.php?id=lami_4): the timeline of the Smaky computers
+  * [Smaky@museebolo](https://www.museebolo.ch/): where the Smakies can usually be seen outside the VCF
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