Welcome to the Computer Museum at the University of Waterloo

The process of learning BASIC and seeing the possible outcomes.

ALEX was an early videotex communications service released to the public in 1988. It included a CRT monitor attached to a keyboard with eight extra function keys, and a phone.

Students had access to systems, like the System/360 75, that could compile, read, and interpret their work. This program was coined Cafeteria Style Computing