The Computer Museum's collection contains a few artifacts that were designed in the early 1970s to help people learn about the fundamentals of computing. Not all were used here at the school, but they provide insight as to what learning computing was like around the time the department was founded.
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.
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.
There are ten Apple II models that have been officially released by Apple, and around two hundred copies.
A look into a 1984 perspective of coding a BASIC artificial intelligence program.
A short history of the Polaroid Polaprinter.
The artifact pictured is an Apple Newton MessagePad 110.
The artifact pictured is believed to be a core memory board from Waterloo’s very own IBM 1620.