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Saturday Welcome to Retro-Computing devroom
Vintage everywhere!
Getting 1K Chess for the ZX81 online
Or, how I used $2 Billion of internet infrastructure to run 672 bytes of code, from 1982
Let's Get Serial!
Histroy and current state of everyone's favourite interface
Made by Woz: how Apple-1 operating system works?
Brilliant Steve Wozniak’s code every software engineer should know
A Computer Museum
Why and how?
Trajectware - timeline-based navigation across computing heritage Hack for the Planet
Reverse Engineering Embedded Systems to Reduce E-Waste
Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc
Keeping software on unsupported Unix-ish operating systems up-to-date
AOSC OS/Retro - An Introduction
An Ongoing Quest for the Possibility of Modern Linux on Vintage Hardware
Old Web Today: Keeping Flash (and other) Retro Web Sites Accessible on the modern web
Techniques for combining web archives and emulation using FOSS tools.
FrogFind and 68k News
Building Modern Web Portals for Vintage Machines
A Brief History of Spreadsheets
From LANPAR to VisiCalc to Lotus to LibreOffice

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2021q4/003309.html.

Retrocomputing is defined by Wikipedia as the use of older computer hardware and software in modern times.

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Saturday

  Welcome to Retro-Computing devroom
Vintage everywhere!
Pau Garcia Quiles (pgquiles), François Revol (mmu_man) 10:00 10:05
  Getting 1K Chess for the ZX81 online
Or, how I used $2 Billion of internet infrastructure to run 672 bytes of code, from 1982
Steven Goodwin 10:05 10:30
  Let's Get Serial!
Histroy and current state of everyone's favourite interface
Stephan Hohmann 10:30 11:15
  Made by Woz: how Apple-1 operating system works?
Brilliant Steve Wozniak’s code every software engineer should know
Sergey Panarin 11:15 12:00
  A Computer Museum
Why and how?
Bart van den Akker 12:00 13:25
  Trajectware - timeline-based navigation across computing heritage Christophe Ponsard 13:25 13:55
  Hack for the Planet
Reverse Engineering Embedded Systems to Reduce E-Waste
Maurits Fennis 13:55 14:30
  Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc
Keeping software on unsupported Unix-ish operating systems up-to-date
Carsten Strotmann 14:30 15:30
  AOSC OS/Retro - An Introduction
An Ongoing Quest for the Possibility of Modern Linux on Vintage Hardware
Mingcong Bai 15:30 16:00
  Old Web Today: Keeping Flash (and other) Retro Web Sites Accessible on the modern web
Techniques for combining web archives and emulation using FOSS tools.
Ilya Kreymer 16:00 16:30
  FrogFind and 68k News
Building Modern Web Portals for Vintage Machines
Sean Malseed 16:30 17:00
  A Brief History of Spreadsheets
From LANPAR to VisiCalc to Lotus to LibreOffice
Jim Hall 17:00 18:00