[kwlug-disc] OT: [UWComputerMuseum] A major donation! The Tom Conrad Collection

[Paul Nijjar]

This is off-topic, but seems that it might be of interest to some
KWLUG members.

- Paul

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:33:10 +0000
From: Lawrence Folland <lfolland at uwaterloo.ca>
To: "uwcomputermuseum at lists.uwaterloo.ca"
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Subject: [UWComputerMuseum] A major donation!  The Tom Conrad Collection

We are very excited to announce a major donation we have recently received.  We have been working on the logistics of this donation for over a year now.  They arrived in January and we are now going through the items to sort and catalogue them.

We have created a blog post to tell the story of how this donation came about.  These came from a collector who worked at IBM for over 30 years and was involved in the early days of personal computers in Palo Alto, California.

See the whole story here:
   https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/blog/tom-conrad-collection

We will have some of these items on display next week at our Open House.  Further details coming soon.

Lawrence


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