Talks

Here is a collection of some of the talks ive given through time, most will be in English but a few Danish ones also made the list.

VCFB 2022 - Danish Society for Computer History

2022: The Danish Society for Computer History

In the fall of 2022, I attended Vintage Computer Festival Berlin again, and gave a talk about our work with building the Danish Datamusum as part of The Danish Society for Computer History.

I started with a 'brief' (not really) run-through the story of the organisation, followed by our current struggles and finally visions and dreams for the future.

BornHack 2021 - The Danish Comet

2021: The Danish Comet

In the summer 2021 i gave a talk at BornHack where i presented the actual synopsis of my book, which at this point had turned into something very diferent from the first draft.

But i had realized that i needed to lock a few things in, otherwise i would continue to dive through rabit-holes and newer finish anything.

BornHack 2020 - Mike Mikjær - Made in Denmark

2020: Made in Denmark - so i'm writing a book!

BornHack is a medium sized danish hacker camp, where i, in the summer of 2020, gave a talk titled 'Made in Denmark', giving a quick run-down of danish made micro-computers.

The talk is also a very early insight into my thought about my book and what was going into it, but still before i finally made up my mind on the excact focus of my book.

TheCamp.dk 2019 - Retro Computing with Mike – A walk down memory lane, 25 years of home computing

2019: A walk down memory lane, 25 years of home computing

The Camp was a danish hacker-camp with a limit of 50 participants, in the summer of 2019 i gave a talk that was a walkthrough of the first 25 years of home computing.

We started by the release of the first modern central processing units, Zilog Z80 and the Intel 8008, and ended with the modern computers of the late 90s.

All the way through the story i use pictures and stories about my own computers both from back then and in my collection.

Vintage Computer Festival Berlin 2019 - Danish Computers

Danish Computers at Vintage Computer Festival Berlin 2019

Back in 2019, i did an tiny exhibition of Danish computers and gave a talk about the same subject, the event recorded the talk, but i also create my own video about both the talk and the exhibition.

We met a lot of interesting people, and got a decent amount of exposure for the danish computer industry of the late 1900's.