Welcome to the 3rd Update mini-conference on Saturday, July 16th, 13:00!

[Anke Stüber]

Hi all,

you're invited to the Update Computer Club's[0] 3rd mini-conference[1]!

When:  Mini-conference on Saturday, July 16th, 13:00–18:00
       Mini-hackathon on Sunday, July 17th, 14:00–18:00
Where: Uppsala, depending on number of attendees either Svartbäcksgatan
       65 or Lägerhyddsvägen 1, house 10, floor 6, room 106150
       Online via BigBlueButton[2]

Please sign up[3] if you plan to attend on-site! We only have room for
15 participants at our new premises, if more people register we will use
a room at Uppsala University instead. The location will be announced as
soon as possible.

The conference and hackathon are free for anyone to attend. You're
encouraged to bring along friends and peculiar computer hardware!

If you have any questions, contact <zeltophil at dfupdate.se> or the Update
board at <styrelsen at dfupdate.se>.

Hope to see you there,
Anke (zeltophil)

=== Schedule ===

==== Saturday, July 16th ====

13:00 – Mark Kahrs (University of Pittsburgh): The Large Scale Systems
Museum and the Scientific Data Systems 940

Two talks in one! In the first part, the hardware and software of the
Large Scale Systems Museum will be reviewed. Operational status, as well
as future plans, will be described. In the second part, the SDS-940 will
be briefly described followed by a discussion of two different attempts
to reconstitute software on this influential but extinct hardware.

13:45 – Lars Brinkhoff (Ictech): E FAIL SAIL WAITS

A demonstration of the Stanford AI lab operating system called WAITS,
running on a PDP-10 emulator with support for the Data Disc raster
display system. The E editor will be used to live-code two small "hello
world" programs for the FAIL assembler and SAIL compiler.

14:30 – Break

14:45 – Björn Victor (Update): Creating Chaos in modern computers

I will present my work on implementing the Chaosnet network protocol in
modern computers. Chaosnet was previously only available on old emulated
systems. The implementation, through a Network Control Program in the
Chaosnet bridge program, will be described, and its operation
interactively demonstrated, including interoperability with e.g. ITS.
Also, some ongoing work will be discussed.

15:30 – Break

16:00 – Angelo Papenhoff (Humboldt University of Berlin): Multics

Multics is an operating system perhaps best known for engendering Unix,
but not many have actually used it or know much about it. In my talk I
want to present how it was developed, what kind of hardware it ran on,
explain some of its central ideas, show how these actually look like in
practice in an interactive session, and summarize to what degree its
ideas are still around today.

17:30 – Guided tour of Update's new premises, with an overview of
ongoing and future projects

==== Sunday, July 17th ====

14:00 – Vintage computing hackathon

Possible projects are a Multics programming session, hacking on a
PDP-11/10 (Update's computer of the month July 2022) or more, depending
on the interests of the attendees.

[0] https://www.dfupdate.se/en/
[1] https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:mini-conference
[2] https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8
[3] https://dud-poll.inf.tu-dresden.de/O_EYK8JTBw/