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Here is a list of interesting websites that you may wish to take a look at!

On Saturday, October 26, we held our termly Computer Museum Open House! The event ran from 10:00am to 4:00pm in DC 1301 and featured many of our interactive artifacts, recent acquisitions, and a couple guest displays.

A 1986 Engineering Education Research Centre (EERC) News issue included some interesting results of a survey taken by engineering undergraduates on their use of personal computers. 

On Tuesday, June 18 2024, the Computer Museum hosted a Hardware Day featuring the PDP-11/04, WatCOW, and a variety of portable computers.

On May 15, 2024, Scott gave a brief history lesson of computing to the Seeing Possibilities and Rewards in Computer Science (SPARCS) visitors.

Here we present a list of featured artifacts!

Here are a variety of emulators we have found interesting and useful

We provide some context for a 1980s era horror-filled poem about losing data.

A blog about the birth of Linux.

Learn about the life of Ada Lovelace; The first computer programmer. According to reports, Ada is the first person who ever wrote the world’s first computer program in the 1840s, which is remarkable given that electronic computers did not exist until the 1940s, one hundred years later.