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.
The IBM 2741 Communications Terminal was a printing computer terminal introduced in the 1960s. Recently, we opened up our terminal looking for documentation, and in doing so, found a test sheet from 1980.
The IMSAI 8080 is a microcomputer made by IMS Associates and released in 1975, first as a computer kit and later as a fully assembled unit.
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.