Talks 2025
The talks offer exciting insights into the world of computer history and vintage technologies.
Historians, experts, computer collectors and artists present their latest findings and collections in entertaining short talks.
The talks will take place in the afternoon and invite people to discuss the beginnings and developments of the digital age.
Videos of the talks from 2023 are still available on our YouTube channel.
Agenda
Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Lang. |
11:30 – 12:00 | Entwicklungsgeschichte der Enigma | Walter Schmid | DE |
12:15 – 12:45 | Vom Nokia Communicator zum Samsung Galaxy Fold: Die Verwirklichung der Vision des mobilen Büros | Bedo Hamza | DE |
13:00 – 13:30 | Programming the Apollo Guidance Computer | Neil Fraser
Lena Ku |
EN |
13:30 – 14:00 | Programming the Game Boy Advance | Sven Hürlimann | DE |
14:15 – 14:45 | Gopher: The Text-Based Web before HTTP | Moritz Küttel | DE |
15:00 – 16:00 | Sofatalk – Über Computer berichten | Dominik Landwehr (Moderation)
Gabriela Salvisberg Matthias Schüssler Guido Berger |
DE |
16:15 – 16:45 | Warum wir die Geschichte digitaler Spiele in der Schweiz erforschen. Confoederatio Ludens stellt sich vor anhand des Fallbeispiels Necronom. | Eugen Pfister
Adrian Demleitner |
DE |
17:00 – 17:45 | Demoszene – moderne Meisterwerke auf klassischer Hardware | Andry Joos | DE |
Time | Title | Speaker(s) | Lang. |
11:30 – 12:00 | Wie hat das US-Patent 3’025’589 unsere Welt verändert? | Robert Weiss | DE |
12:30 – 12:50 | Gustav PacMan (Film) | Luca Antonazzo (Präsentiert) | DE |
13:00 – 13:45 | Modern Retro Computing | Ingo Barkow | DE |
14:00 – 14:30 | Nostalgia, FPGAs, and a mad personal project | Shachar Shemesh | EN |
15:00 – 15:45 | Understanding the phenomenon of “girl-oriented” video games | Kathleen Bohren | EN |
16:00 – 16:30 | From berries to apples – the story of Amiberry | Dimitris Panokostas | EN |
16:45 – 17:30 | The DemoScene from Crackers to Digital Cultural Heritage (Exclusive Preview) |
BBSindex |
DE/EN |
Topics
The talks are described in their original languages.