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

[CrankyOldBugger]

Not off topic at all!  This is great stuff!


On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 03:33, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> This is off-topic, but seems that it might be of interest to some
> KWLUG members.
>
> - Paul
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Lawrence Folland <lfolland at uwaterloo.ca>
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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"
>         <uwcomputermuseum at lists.uwaterloo.ca>
> 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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