York University Computer Museum

[vic user]

i was on the cbm newsgroup, and noticed that Jim Butterfield will be doing a talk at York University.

his topic is computer hobbyists in the seventies, iirc.

god, i wish i could go to it!

i would really like to go to the museum as well, as it focusses primarily on computing in canada.

here is the link:

http://www.cs.yorku.ca/museum/about/about.htm

chris

[Micom 2000]

Damn, I tried for several years to get a Computerg Museum going in TO.
The Science Centre dismissed it. We had an initial group called Tc3 (Toronto Classic Computer Collectors). Another group in Windsor had a site but it fell thru. Nice to see but too late for my treasures cause they're all out here in central Manitoba. The site is interesting but has a paucity of
resouces, computers and lack of examples of canadian contributions to
computer innovation. One would think that a computer faculty would have
a richness in students to research that history, but it ignores Stephen Dorsey's AES and MICOM2000, the Hyperion, the Craig-Voelkner terminal
and a multitude of other influential developments, many originating at the Univerity of Waterloo.

It did have a good Ottawa press release on collecting featuring Mike Kenzies who has such a good nose for sources of computers (Curse you
Mike Kenzie!!) and another chap who I don't know of, but there are many
others as well who quietly go their way of collecting.

Oh well Canada finally has a computer museum of sorts.

Lawrence