 Er ist Operamit Natja Buttendorf. Please give her a grand round of applause. On the camp, you often get asked whether you're here for the first time or for the second time. And I want to ask, has anyone of you worked at Robotron? Niemand, okay. No one, okay. Ich bin Künstlerin und hatte vor anderthalb Jahren auf dem ersten Kongress in Leipzig. One and a half years ago on the first Congress in Leipzig. I talked about some of my work. That mostly was about jewelry and nail art. And now I am researching computer history in the DDR. Bored by the American tech narrative. I am trying to tell a more complex and diverse story about tech. Well, since nobody worked at Robotron, I don't know if maybe some of you know this story already, but that's not relevant. Robotron, a tech opera, is the first soap opera that takes place in the computer history of the DDR. A web series of computers that are theorized in Eastern Germany. It's about obsolete tech. And since history is written by winners, it has gotten lost to history. It's about emotional connections connected to computer history. Robotron, a tech opera, is a web series in which I play all of the roles and also all of the other personal, like set design, camera, special effects, post design, all of those things. The first season was completely filmed in vertical format in my room in Berlin. You can see the protagonist here. I can hardly point at it, but in this cue-optic beworben, that's colleague H and colleague M and colleague X are the others. All of the roles I use by myself, I play by myself, that's partly for the concept and partly also a budget constraint. It was produced based on a bunch of future tutorials. Now how did it come to me making this series? Werner Hartmann, my step-grandfather, was one of the founders of Microelectronics in the DDR. This is him receiving his second national prize in 1970. In 1960, he founded AMD, a company working on microbiology in Dresden. Because he was not involved in the main political party, he was suspected by the government and suspended from his work at some point. The foundation of AMD was for Microelectronics in the DDR, very important. In 1980, the institute was renamed to AMD. 2017, I was invited into an exhibition, a Requiem for a failed state in Leipzig. She was invited to present some of her grandfather's work. During this work about the story, she remembered that her parents worked at Robotron and were busy in the electronics manufacturing in the DDR. With this letterhead, I grew up in Dresden. This was in the center of Dresden. When one looks for Robotron in search enginealities, you will find something about an arcade in 1984. There is also a skating brand. This name was very used, very widely known, about a computer tech in Eastern Europe. This is an excerpt from an old computer series in Germany. In which the name Robotron is dropped. Robotron as a publicly owned company was owned by the state. The main area of this company was in Dresden and in the background you can see the construction of the main building of the company. The VAB-Kombinatsbetriebe was ... ... so there were multiple combined places combined into this VAB. It helped 86.000 employees in the company and in Dresden it was 6.700. If you know a lot about it, you might be aware that in this list it's not complete, but because I left out Weimar and Weidmannstorff. Out of this list I just forgot some. So the name Robotron was already used before this VAB-Kombinat was started in Karl-Marxstadt. There was a scientific industrial complex, which was already using this name and later it was included in the VAB-Kombinat. In 1957, when the previous company was founded, there was a competition among employees and some employees entered something into this competition where it was some kind of work of art and there were other names being used. You can see here Manbotron, Robotron, Carl-Antron and one of the pictures was a computer which was built there and this was the first packaging where it showed up. So it's a package for matches and this is from the 80s where it's a bit-for-bit quality and it's interesting because from this technology there is a snake holding the apple and I don't think it's a coincidence that there was the snake on the picture holding the apple and an important part of my research was these magazines which were published weekly from 1960 to 1990. So this GIF you can see is from a German movie where the protagonist is saying good news. The news today is just about people being acknowledged for their work. So when I was looking at these newspapers there was this Lachkarte, a laughing cart which was a cabaret from the company and maybe some of you know the actor which were involved there. There were actually six ensembles being involved in this cabaret and the company was taking charge about child care so cultural affairs to amuse the employees. From the 86.000 employees around 44% were women. Neben der Essensversorgung fanden hier auch zahlreiche to the catering. So here you can see the canteen and the black and white picture is from 1976 and on the right you see it in the current day and it's one of the sets where the web series is taking place. It was supposed to be taken down in 2015 and like currently Dresden has re-bought the canteen and they are currently thinking about what is supposed to happen to it and maybe there is some cultural stuff going inside. And apart from the catering, which happened inside there were also a lot of cultural events taking place inside this canteen. Das Rechenzentrum, das ist der andere Schauplatz der Serien. Der Data Center is another place where the series takes happen. Right before it was torn down there were rugs in there that were turned on. There were four supercomputers in there. Einer der Großrechner of those supercomputers was the ESA 1040 which you can see as a model here. This computer was made by Roboton in the start of the 70s and this is a reverse engineered IBM 360 and some colleagues also told me that they improved some of the mistakes made in the IBM 360. This was what a workplace at the ESA T40 would have looked like. Und natürlich hatte die Stasi exklusiv Zugriff die Stasi had exclusive access to these computers. Regularly the employees got free time when the Stasi was operating the supercomputer and the entire room was locked down for this. Roboton also had some inofficial employees watching over the other employees und aus der Abteilung gedruckt worden. They also discovered that some employees were printing flyers from Roboton printers. As any social state the DDR was under embargo for technology by the West. Of course the computer development was impacted by this and there was a lot of high tech smuggling at the time. This book describes how that happened. Einer der Aufgaben war embargo waren, die auf der Kokom-Liste standen zu beschaffen. They actually had an entire distribution section at the company that was dedicated to finding out how to smuggle tech. This... Jetzt kommt gleich ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus meinem ASMR-Video mit ein KC87, made by Roboton, was used together with Silicon Softnails, which are also part of my work and are supposed to improve the married in response. Und im Frühjahr gab es eine Ausstellung... In Spring there was an exhibition called Computer Girls, which also happened last year in Dortmund and then wandered to Paris and they put the image of the Softnails with the KC87 with as one of the main promotional pictures and it was to be seen all over the Paris subway. Und... ...she was very excited about that. It's still available to be seen until October 6. 50 Jahre Roboton gefeiert. 50 Jahre Roboton is also celebrated in another magazine called Futur. Aber was natürlich schon witzig ist, dass Roboton gibt's seit 30 Jahren. Es gibt nicht seit 30 Jahren jetzt und es ist nur 20 Jahre existiert. Und jetzt zeichnet sie 50 Jahre Roboton. Schauen wir die Web-Serie, die ist jetzt nicht so lange. Nächstes Mal schauen wir die Web-Serie und die erste Episode. Die zweite Saison könnt ihr heute auf YouTube sehen. Die Web-Serie ist die längste. Wir befinden uns jetzt gerade an der Web-Serie von Roboton Tech Opera, in der ich auch Rolls und Hübschreiber in der Top-Karneas. Ihr seht alle Kostümse. Da ist der Bett. Es fährt sehr schwer. Es ist schon sehr schwer. Wir haben die jüngste YouTube-Style für Books. Es war in verschiedenen Archivs. Es ist auch sehr schwierig. Ich habe schon viele Dinge getestet. Was ich euch zeigen möchte, ...dream, das DDR, Instagram-Trend, ...made squiggly eyebrows out of date. Es gibt ziemlich viele Tutorials. Man braucht ganz viel Kosmetika, Geheel, Eyeliner, ein bisschen Liedschatten und vielleicht sogar noch... ...Jerl, Eyeliner, etc. und ich weiß nicht. Es war nicht in den DDR-Times. Es war nur ein Eyebrow-Pen, ...simple Eyebrow-Pen, ...no name. Here I have a really bright one, ...because my eyebrows are really bright. Ja, und diese Time, ...that was really simple. So. Make some room here, and then... Ja, war eine Welle sein. I will wave around here. You have to watch out a little bit, ...so you have the natural swing in your eyebrows. And my eyebrows come up here. Interessieren Sie sich auch für Technik? Ja. Das kommt davon. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe alles gesehen. Robotron. Robotron. Robotron. V-E-B-Kombinat. Robotron. Alle arbeiten bei Robotron. Everybody works at Robotron. Das kommt davon. Das kommt davon. Das ist was, was kommt von dem Robotron. Auf deinem Schad. Robotron. Robotron. Mein Schad. Also Robotron. Rotem. Man kann mein Brat haben. Mit Gefühlen. Man hat Gefühle für Menschen. Mit Gefühlen. Für Gefühle. Gefühle für Frauen. Technik und Gefühle für Robotron. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe alles gesehen. Ich habe alles gesehen. Robotron. Robotron. Ja, finde ich es total gut geworden. So, das kam wirklich gut. Robotron. Alle arbeiten bei Robotron. Everybody works at Robotron. Es steht dem komplizierten Tutorial in nichts nach. Früher war alles einfacher. Mehr Zeit für den Robotron. Ja, das hat nichts mehr zu tun. At this time everything was more easy. So, they had more time for the kids and household. Futuremäßig. Unterwegs sein kann. I had good tricks how to be on the way in the future. See us at Robotron. Instagram. Instagram. Stasi-Blog. Stasi-Waffel-Instagram. Das kommt davon. Stasi-Waffel-Instagram. Stasi-Waffel-Instagram. Robotron. Das kommt davon. Robotron. Ja, das war jetzt erstmal der Trailer. Das war so Trailer. Es geht noch weiter. Aber wir sehen uns noch mehr. Vielen Dank. Der Song ist von Future Maps. Der Song ist von Future Maps. Anka Jana Batte. Also bekannt als Jana Batte. Und jetzt haben wir 10 Minuten bis zu Saison 1. Robotron. Robotron. Robotron. Robotron. V-E-B-Kombinat. Robotron. Alle arbeiten bei Robotron. Das kommt davon. Das kommt davon. Baby mag Gefühle. Baby mag Technik. Sie interessiert sich für Technik. Sie hat auch Gefühle. Gute Gefühle. Schlechte Gefühle. Mittagspause bei Robotron. Das kommt davon. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe es gesehen. Ich habe alles gesehen. Robotron. Robotron. Robotron. Hi, guys. Cool, dass ihr dabei seid. Hey, guys. Cool, dass ihr hier seid. Für das erste Episode von Robotron Attack Opera. Das ist mehr für die Introduction. Ich werde über den Setting über Robotron. Wie ihr hier seht, kann man es hier sehen. Alle Staates sind verbunden. Zum Gespräch über das Unifed System, auf elektronische Computingsoftware. Wir haben Technologie, später die Europäische Kuba und anderen Staaten, und hier siehst du, dass sie schon ein bisschen erneut sind. Sie sollten auf pereferale Technologien konzentrieren. Und die DDR ist nicht sehr amüsiert bei uns, weil sie schon all diese Technologien haben, weil sie es schon produzieren, wie die ARS 300. Sie hatten ein separates Treaty, die DDR und den USSR. Und später, sie haben alle das treaty mit den Staaten getestet. Und sie mussten sich über die Technologien, die sie komputieren, betrachten. Denn sie waren ein paar Jahre zurückgekommen, compared to the international state of things. So, the EBR 360 was the state of the art. It was very well spread, and it was very well documented. That's why there were documentation already in the hands of Robotron. And there is rumors that there was an original computer actually at Robotron in 1972. They finished their first own computer, and it was the first computer of its kind. Und der ES 1040 war dann sogar mit IBM kompatibel. This computer was also compatible with IBM. Yeah, yeah. Und da stand, that one of these computers of the ECR was standing. Many people were working with it. Among them Colleague H, who worked as operator 3 in the area A43 in the computing center of VEB Robotron. And here we see Colleague H at the punch card reader. Colleague H, du hast vergessen, die Anlagen schuhe anzuziehen. Colleague H, you forgot to wear the proper shoes. Baby mag Gefühle. Baby has feelings, she likes tech. Hi, fans and friends. Hello, friends and fellows. Hello, Colleague H. Geht's. How are you? Hey, tell me, what do you think about the new four shift system? You mean the rolling week, huh? I don't really care about it. The secret collective is on the way and wants to take the machine. Let's go to the canteen. Lunch break at Robotron. Geil, Kappernklöße. Oh, Kappertumplings. Very well, we also have warm meals during the light shift. I don't really like that rolling week. It's too far for me. I need to wait too long for the bus. When I come from the outskirts. But I really like it. When I have more free time in the week, I have more time for the kids and for the household. I really like it. But I would like the food better in the evening. Hey, colleague H. Arbeitsschutz geht jeden an. Work protection goes for everybody. So, ist doch rollende Woche. Why? It's rolling week. Robotron, das kommt davon. Baby mag Gefühle. Baby mag Technik. Oh je, gestern mal die... Oh no, yesterday was disco day. Were you there? No, no. In erster Linie für Jugendliche ist das Kombinatis gedacht. Wachen unter den 200 Jugendlichen. Obwohl es für Teenagers war. Bevor die 200 Teenagers da waren, waren es eine ganze 30. Das nächste Mal mehr bekannte Gesichter zu sehen. Oh, da sind keine Robotronen. Und alles da? Das ist bau. Das erste ES-1040 war zu Indien. Hey, Kollege H. Hey, Kollege H. Hast du einen dummen Sohn? Schicke ihn zu. Do you have a stupid son? Send him to Robotron. Do you have two? Send them to the police. So auch bei Robotron? Do you also work at Robotron? Cool. Genau, Staffel 2. So, Season 2 is online 2. It's supposed to become five seasons in total. It will take some time before they're all done. Ich hab noch eines slide. Es gibt auch Robotron. There is Robotron merch. It's slow merch. So you will have to wait up to ten years. That's how you had to wait for about ten years vor Treband in the DDR. It's launched in April and the first audas aren't handled yet. Thank you. Fragen? Are there any questions? Ein Moment, bitte. Darf ich in der Robotron-Witz erzählen? Mehr tele Robotron-Joke. Okay, but I already know almost all of them. Woran erkennst du, dass die Stasi bei dir Robotron-Banzen einsetzt? How do you know if a Stasi is planting Robotron-Bugs in your living room? Wenn du einen neuen Kaputt hast. Andere Fragen? Are there any more questions? Vielen Dank. Noch ein Applaus. Okay, I guess there are not. So, thank you very much again. Natja Rubendorf. And thank you also very much for listening to the translation done by Oscar, Katie and Pharmafirma. If you have any feedback for us, feel free to post on Twitter using the hashtag C3T or tweeting at us, our Twitter account is at C3Lingo.