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Friday, September 13, 2024

Creating PETSCII Art

PETSCII is the character set used in Commodore computers. Its graphical symbols can be used to create blocky, pixelated images and animations.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Special Visitor: Robert J. Sawyer

We had Canadian Science Fiction author Robert J. Sawyer and his wife, poet Carolyn Clink, drop by the museum today. He’s in town to discuss his latest novel "The Downloaded", set in Waterloo.

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Ada Lovelace

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.