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

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

> From: CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>

Very interesting to me.

I didn't know that UofW had a computer museum.

My household only has half the models that were donated :-)

I have a panel from the UofW IBM 1711 (part of the IBM 1710).  I wanted 
the front panel but the university kept it and mounted it high on the wall 
of the Red Room.  Who knows where that would be now.  I see the bottom 
half of it in the top left corner of a picture
<https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/sites/default/files/styles/uw_is_media_x_large/public/uploads/images/redroom.png>
There are three mounted consoles there.  The 1710's is the middle one.

I tried to join the mailing list but get an error page
<https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/mailing-list>

They seem to be on X but I avoid it.

York University has a computer museum too, but fairly focussed.
<https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/>