The Computer Museum is open for free! All ages are welcome, whether you grew up on these machines or you've never seen one in your life. Drop by, play retro games, learn about computer history, and chat with museum curators. Come around any time!
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Friends of the Computer Museum
Here is a list of interesting websites that you may wish to take a look at!
Portable typewriters: The Majestic-400
Manufactured by Brother Industries Lt in the mid 1960s, the Majestic-400 is a portable typewriter which became popular in North America for its affordability and portability.
On This Day: November 16
On November 16, 1922, IBM System/360 hardware designer Gene Amdahl was born.
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Computer Profile: Apple Macintosh
First of series of profiles of items in our collection.
Exhibits
Take a look at our exhibits- they are located across the campus!
"It's part of my history"
From the April 10, 2023 Daily Bulletin:
Years ago, when Nancy (BA ’78) and Allan McCalder (BA ’78) came back to the University of Waterloo for a tour, they knew their kids needed to see the computer.
If you were also a Waterloo student in the 1960s or 70s, you probably understand why. At that time, the Math and Computer building (MC) housed the largest computer in Canada, the IBM 360 Model 75. It was housed in the centre of MC, and any student or passerby could peer in through the windows to see its gigantic size.
“The whole main floor was a computer,” says Nancy. “It was humungous. We said to our boys, ‘We’ve got to see this computer.' They loved computers, and so we went to the math building and looked in the room.”
Nancy and Allan were shocked at what they saw.
https://uwaterloo.ca/daily-bulletin/2023-04-10#it-s-part-of-my-history