OufParty 8

For this 8, edition, the Old Computers and Consoles Club (OCCC) has presented tree exhibitions.

The first exhibition was dedicated at the 40 years of the Commodore 64. With 15 computers, this exhibition the public have can discover the history importance of the Comodore 64.

A second exhibition showed off the first Play Station consoles of Sony. With 10 consoles sometimes unrecognized, the publoc have discover the origin of the actual PS5.

The three.th exhibition presented the Smaky computers family, Swiss computers created at the EPFL by the Dr. Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud and some of its other accessories and programming’s learning card. This exhibition was coupled with an invitation to some Swiss computer science pioneers that we have listened and filmed.

These years the family expands. For the eight editions, fifty exhibitors his coming. The raclette was a real success, four persons have scraped the cheese, including Jean-Marie Rouiller, Swiss computer science pioneer.

The public affluence was good, and the comments was encouraging. We were solicited to come to Vintage Computer festival of Munich with Smaky Computers!

Smaky exhibition

The Smaky exhibition retraced the history of the French Swiss computer with some creators of the Smaky. This computer family was developed on the EPFL and all models, except prototypes was exhibited. This exhibition was for us an occasion to exhibit this computer family for the public but also for communicate with his developers.
To find out more about the Smaky computer family, we have gest some developers of the Smaky and some other computer pioneers like René Beuchat, visible on the first picture. René Beuchat was the hardware developer of the network of the Smaky, and hat developed a graphic card for the Smaky 130. Our objective was to collect the testimonies of the French Swiss computer’s pioneers.
The Smaky was developed for the educational market. The people have made the Smaky have talent and imagination, but it was frequently students. For example, the operating system of the Smaky 8 and next was developed by Beat Brunner, a young student of 18-year-old. The operating system is multitasked and real-time. The graphic interface was developed by Daniel Roux, a fantastic developer without training! Daniel Roux has bought the first Dauphin sold. It has learned the programming and hat sent his firs program at Cathy and Jean-Daniel Nicoud. Jean-Daniel Nicoud sees this program, a reflex tester, and his next software’s and proposed work at EPFL to Daniel Roux. Later, Daniel Roux was the first employee of Epsitec and work to his retirement in 2022 at Epsitec.

The exhibition was realised with the collaboration of Jean-Daniel Nicoud. It hats lend the firsts Smaky and realized all Smaky presentation posters.

For more information about Jean-Daniel Nicoud and Smaky family computers, www.smaky.ch