Chronology of ancient facts

Ancient happenings

Vieumikro 2000 autumn edition
On saturday 7th & sunday 8th of october 2000 was the " Vieumikro d'automne". Clic here for pictures.

Vieumikro 2000 spring edition
On saturday 20th & sunday 21st of mai 2000 was the "Vieumikro de printemps". Clic here for all details

Vieumikro 99 autumn edition
On saturday 9th & sunday 10th of october 1999 was the "Vieumikro d'automne". Clic here for many pictures

Vieumikro 99 spring edition
On saturday 3rd of april 1999 a eu lieu le "Vieumikro de Printemps". Clic here for insteresting facts.

FAUST 98 Show
A big convention for technologies and arts  where we had a booth, back in October 1998. Here are some infos about this show.

Vieumikro 98
The convention was held on 25th of April 1998. Many people went here to enjoy games like Frogger (a contest) and Virtual Babyfoot (another). Here are some photos that give a good feeling this show.

Ancient events

Nintendo Famicom

The first home 8 bits video game made in Japan knew one of the biggest success ever. In ten years, an impressive amount of games were made. Discover a more acurate section with many models and several accessories.

Découvrez la grande famille :

Famicom	NES	Famicom Disk System	Famicom AV	Infos techniques	SMS contre NES

All about Canon X-07

By Jean Philippe

Canon X-07 is a famous pocket computer very well made. Despite its nipponish origin, it had its biggest succes in France. We are proud to present you the most important resource on web for this tiny little machine. A complete panel for software, hardware & preipherals.

Robotron : a communist IBM

We found an old report about the biggest Eastern computer maker. The french magazine Ordinateur Personnel sent a reporter in 1985. In french.

Vidéopac 18 Laser War cartridge

A game for two, almost cool and even interesting, released in the first series of Videpoac games. But of course, the booklet is quite confused, and sometime even wrong...

December : Tiger Game.com

An obscure portable videogame

An obscure breed of portable videogame with no success. Tiger did not sell them to Europe. This low priced console was no outsider of the famous Gameboy. It has too many few games and very bad screen.

Circa 1983, Apple France decided to promote its innovating image in the computer world. Two artists were asked to paint some machines. Silicium proudly presents a superb donation and the history about a very unique Apple ///.

The famous end of  8 bits line Atari XE knows 4 brothers. The 65xe, 130xe, 800xe and the videogame machine System XE are quite cool, despite their little innovation. There are still some questions about them. You can discover our research and even help us to know them better. These pages are in french but there are many pictures and technical specifications files.

November 2001

The president will present the last arrival at Silicium's. A moment filled with emotion.

October 2001

Our helmet were very usefull. After a big explosion in Toulouse, Silicium is prepared for earthshake. We have moved from July to October. We now have to arrange thing. The library has to be reinstalled, as the photo studio and the workbench.

From July to October 2001
The all stock has been moved with no problem. 50 meters of shelving has been filled !

Next step is for documentation & books.

Take a look a the modest but affable history of Silicium

Ancient web changes

A chronology of actions Silicium's site. Started in January 1998.

July 2001
The new look before a dynamic mode. Our old web was ugly. It was created in 1996, were beauty & style was different from today. Next operation, a database ...

November 2000
Silicium is changing the website.

April 1999
A new column, The Game&Watch. Do you remember the days of the old school ? you used to play them a lot.

March 1999
Silicium gets its domain name Silicium.org, thank to Netsud. Medialogic has the mirror site.

September 1998
A new column, the Best of Des Jeux. There you will find many games that we loved. You can also participate.

June 1998
A new column, Emulateurs along with the gallery.

April 1998
Le catalogue est presque fini. Il reste quelques compatibles pécés à formaliser mais vu le peu d'intérêt que nous avons sur ces machines, ça risque de traîner un peu. Quelques axes que nous allons suivre dans nos développement du Oueb :

• Plus de détails sur les machines : nous avons une présentation succincte; nous allons rajouter : des photos de périphériques intéressant, les tripes des bécanes, les schémas électroniques, câblage. Toute information sera bienvenue
• Un émulateur par machine : pour chaque machine, nous proposerons un émulateur, dans la mesure ou il y en a un.
• Mise à jour des bases : bibliothèques, logithèque. Avec un accès en requête sur les base de donnée.

March 1998
Le catalogue est quasiment complet. Toutes les nouveautés sont dans la liste, mais les fiches sont plus faites plus tard. Les caractéristiques des machines sont assez difficiles à trouver. Nous en cherchons sur le oueb, mais il y a avec souvent de grosses erreurs. Nous invitons l'aimable surfeur à nous communiquer les fautes et les manques qu'il trouvera dans nos pages.

Il manque pas mal de photos que nous devons prendre de tout ce beau matériel stocké pour la plupart dans nos caves. Nous nous y employons et l'ensemble des pièces devrait être dans la boite d'ici à la fin du siècle. Nous voulons remplacer toutes les photos en noir et blanc, issues de l'édition papier du catalogue.

February 1998 : ring
A ring, managed by Philippe Dubois, will allow you to surf many site about old computers