The Computer Museum was featured in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of WATtimes, the newsletter of the Retirees Association of the University of Waterloo!
The main office of the Computer Museum (DC 1316) will be closed until further notice due to room renovations.
Visit the new Computer Museum display in the Davis Centre!
Check out the new Computer Museum YouTube channel! @UWComputerMuseum
Here we will feature a variety of content, including recordings of presentations, videos from our events, featured artifacts, and more!
Distinguished Public Lecture • Internet: Past, Present and Future
Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google
The Computer Museum was featured in the Daily Bulletin today in regards to the exhibit we created for the Office of the President.
First of series of profiles of items in our collection.
Take a look at our exhibits- they are located across the campus!
From the April 10, 2023 Daily Bulletin:
Years ago, when Nancy (BA ’78) and Allan McCalder (BA ’78) came back to the University of Waterloo for a tour, they knew their kids needed to see the computer.
If you were also a Waterloo student in the 1960s or 70s, you probably understand why. At that time, the Math and Computer building (MC) housed the largest computer in Canada, the IBM 360 Model 75. It was housed in the centre of MC, and any student or passerby could peer in through the windows to see its gigantic size.
“The whole main floor was a computer,” says Nancy. “It was humungous. We said to our boys, ‘We’ve got to see this computer.' They loved computers, and so we went to the math building and looked in the room.”
Nancy and Allan were shocked at what they saw.
https://uwaterloo.ca/daily-bulletin/2023-04-10#it-s-part-of-my-history
Happy birthday to the internet! The first message was sent on ARPANET network on October 29, 1969.