Historic Computing Lab @ UVic Libraries

Projects & Events

Front view of Altair 8800, showing toggle switches and LEDs

Altair 8800 and 8800b restoration
An extensive restoration of the Lab's two Altair computers was recently completed.
2024-04-15
People looking at media artworks in a gallery

Remember Tomorrow (Gallery Exhibition)
Held at InterAccess media arts centre in Toronto, this exhibition features the lab's restorations of historic Canadian Telidon artworks
2023-09-06
A group of people, old and young, in a room full of old computers

Open house at IdeaFest 2020
The newly-opened Historic Computing Lab held a well-attended Open House as part of the Libraries Ideafest 2020 event, "Class of 2030: Your UVic Library of the Future."
2020-03-07
Instructors and students gathered around a group of 1980s-era compact Macs

Retro Machines and Media
The HCL was pleased to host & support this 5-day workshop given at DHSI 2019, led by Dr. Dene Grigar (WSU).
2019-06-14
A bearded man with a long scarf seated in front of an old beige Mac with a large monitor

Traversal of Tim McLaughlin's "Notes Toward Absolute Zero"
The Lab was honoured to host author Tim McLaughlin conducting a traversal of his noted Canadian hypertext novel. The session was followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Dene Grigar, WSU
2019-03-01
An old beige desktop PC with "Retro-computing in the Library" displaying on the monitor

Retro computing in the Library
An exhibition held in conjunction with the University's "IdeaFest", featuring hands-on displays, talks, and a floppy disk data recovery clinic. Held March 3, 2016.
2016-03-10

 

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