Retro computing, workstation style

Rob S

Installation (Unattended)

Location

TBD

This installation will have a Raspberry RP2040-based board, with 32 MB HyperRAM, monochrome graphics, emulated DEC mouse/keyboard, and SD card-based storage. The board runs a modified version of Dmitry Grinberg’s DECstation emulator, at roughly DECstation 3100 performance levels when overclocked to 300 MHz. Shown will be typical workstation graphics demos, such as worms and Xmaze. A prototype of the next generation version, the DECstation2350, may also be shown, depending on how that project progresses.

About the Maker

Retired in 2020 after spending 40 years as an EE. Career spanned tapeouts on Rubylith, to designing ISAs for the latest AI accelerators. Started at DEC, ended at MSFT, with a bunch of start-ups in-between.