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On November 16, 1922, IBM System/360 hardware designer Gene Amdahl was born.

Happy Halloween! These five retro games are perfect for this time of year.

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

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.

This past weekend, the University of Waterloo celebrated its annual Alumni Reunion Event. The Computer Museum welcomed visitors on the morning of June 1^st and presented an exhibit of artifacts in the M3 atrium in the afternoon.

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.