Update Computer Club

Happy Towel Day from the Update Computer Club!

Don't panic, Elsa has got her towel!

#towelday #towelday2026

Pontus and some other members tidied up in our electronics corner yesterday. Just look how much usable space there is now! We never had so few boxes standing around in our L-room! <3

#hackerspace #electronics #soldering

Lecture: Idris – Reviving an Early Unix Clone
by Michael Engel @me_@sueden.social
https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:updateringar#upcoming

When: 2026-04-11, 19:00 CEST
Where: Svartbäcksgatan 65, 75333 Uppsala
Stream: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/rooms/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8/join

The ideas behind #Unix have significant impact on the design of a large number of #operatingsystems. In addition to more recent systems modelled after Unix, such as Minix or Linux, early operating systems inspired by Unix, such as Coherent, Venix, and also the #Idris OS developed by the company Whitesmiths, existed already in the 1970s. For many years, almost the only information available about Idris was a short Wikipedia page. This has changed in 2025 when a #PD68 computer, an Idris-based Motorola 68000 system developed as a project of computer hobbyists in Sweden and Norway, was donated to the computer museum in Dalby. Subsequently, an international cooperation also managed to get hold of and run the #Atari ST port of Idris, which extends the regular Idris system by providing a version of the X10 window system. In this talk, we give details about the recovery of Idris using emulation on different abstraction layers. In addition, we give an introduction to the structure of Idris for Motorola 68k-based systems with a focus on enabling Unix to run on computers lacking virtual memory management.

See you there!

International Open #Hackerspace Day

When: 2026-03-28, 15:00–open end
Where: Datorföreningen Update, Svartbäcksgatan 65, 75333 Uppsala

Welcome to Open Hackerspace Day on March 28 from 15:00!

Get a tour of Update's space, play #Asteroids on our #arcade, see our #homecomputer exhibition, and find out about our activities! Meet our members and hear about their projects. There will be scheduled talks, a synth jam session, and a chance for spontaneous lightning talks.

The event is free and open to anyone. Drop in any time for any amount of time, no registration needed.

Programme:
* 15:00: Doors open
* 17:00: Introduction to the #Fediverse
* 18:00: #Shader #livecoding
* 19:00: #Synth jam session
* Irregularly throughout the day: Tours of the space with intro to our activities

We hope to see you there!

#openhackerspaceday #hackspace

Update logo scrolling past in the #revision infobeam rotation :D

#revision2026 #revisionparty2026 #demoscene

Meet the Update Computer Club at #Uppsala Tech Conference today! We brought a #C64 and some #retrogames for you to play!

Playing the Swedish game "Dubbelmoral" on a #Macintosh. #retrogaming #computerhistory

The #synth #jam has started! Come join us at Open #Hackerspace Day! #Synthesizers, #homecomputers, and maybe later waffles!

Datorföreningen Update
Svartbäcksgatan 65
753 33 #Uppsala
15:00 – open end

The event is free and open to everyone.

Building a low-pass filter at the #synth meetup.

Come join us at Svartbäcksgatan 65 in #Uppsala for Open #Hackerspace Day, the fun is still going on!

#computers #programming #soldering #hacking #making #synthesizers #openhackspaceday

Today at 15:45, Pontus' video tour of our new #hackspace / #computermuseum in #uppsala will be shown at #vcfb2025 @vcfberlin@chaos.social

Watch here: https://talk.vcfb.de/rooms/fcp-hg2-626-enj/join

If you're interested, there are more #retrocomputing talks in English, starting 15:00. See the programme here: https://vcfb.de/2025/vortraege_workshops.html.en

And if you haven't seen it yet, you should definitely watch the video tour of the old space at Polacksbacken that bjarni and kgs gave for #vcfb2020:
https://wiki.vcfb.de/2020/en:update

Visit the Update Computer Club at #Uppsala tillväxtdag today!

And a shout-out to our sponsor 46elks, who is also promoting Update at the event! <3

Lecture: Toki Pona for Hackers by jan Toma
https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:updateringar

When: 2026-05-09, 19:00 CEST
Where: Svartbäcksgatan 65, 75333 Uppsala
Stream: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8

Toki Pona is a constructed language. According to its author, Amatullah Lang, “It was my attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words. There are now thousands of speakers and 137 essential words.” Attendees will get an introduction to Toki Pona focused on words relating to the hacker scene.

See you there!
#toki_pona #conlang #artlang