BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc081b56f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240928T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240928T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/artificial-intelligence-exh ibit-ai-encounters-past-present SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence Exhibit - AI Encounters: Past\, Present\, a nd\nFuture CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nOn September 28\, 2024\, the Computer Museum will b e attending the AI\nEncounters: Past\, Present\, and Future event at the Ken Seiling\nÀ¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Region Museum.\n\nOur display will showcase examples of AI from the late 20th century\,\nrunning on retro computers that visit ors can interact with.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc081eca9 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/hardware-day-thursday-augus t-10-2023 SUMMARY:Hardware Day\, Thursday August 10\, 2023 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nAttention all Vintage Computer enthusiasts!\n\nOn T hursday August 10th\, the UW Computer Museum will be hosting a\n\"Hardware Day\" in which we will bring out a number of older computers\nand see whi ch\, if any\, we can get running. \n\nWe will be working in DC1316 (the C omputer Museum office) and DC2314\nwhich we have booked for the day.  You are welcome to join us to help\nor just see what's going on!  \n\nTimin g: 10am setup\, 4pm tear down.\n\nSome of the machines we're planning to w ork on:\n\n- Original Macintosh Plus/SE\n- Apple ][ plus\n- original IBM P C/XT\n- Panasonic Executive Partner\n- DEC PDP 11/04\n- TRS-80 Model II\n- an old Pong game\n DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc081f682 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170930 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171001 URL:/computer-museum/events/math-reunion-sept-2017 SUMMARY:Math Reunion (Sept 2017) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Faculty of Mathematics held a pancake breakfast in Mathematics 3\non September 30\, 2017 to celebrate 50 years of Mathema tics\, and we set\nup some small tables with recent acquisitions and old f avourites.\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc081fdcf DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170930 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171001 URL:/computer-museum/events/math-reunion-sept-2017 SUMMARY:Math Reunion (Sept 2017) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Faculty of Mathematics held a pancake breakfast in Mathematics 3\non September 30\, 2017 to celebrate 50 years of Mathema tics\, and we set\nup some small tables with recent acquisitions and old f avourites.\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc08202ff DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240618T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240618T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/hardware-day-tuesday-june-1 8-2024 SUMMARY:Hardware Day - Tuesday June 18\, 2024 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Computer Museum will host its next Hardware Day on Tuesday June\n18th\, 2024 from 10am to 4pm in the Davis Centre \"Fish Bowl\" (DC1301)\n\nWe plan to bring out the DEC pdp11/04 and the À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Computer On\nWheels (\"the WatCOW\")\, another PDP 11 system that was used for\noutreach in the 1970s.  We will also have a variety of portable\nco mputers and some of our functioning vintage systems (Commodore 64\,\nApple II\, Macintosh\, TRS-80)\n\nListen to Don Cowan describe the WatCOW (YouT ube Link\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_dNz_W-Ho&ab_channel=uwaterlo o]) at\nthe Math Faculty 50th celebration\n[/innovatio n60/blog/post/math-alumni-celebrate-facultys-first-50-years]\n\nSpeaker: A t noon\, Lanny Cox will present the PiDP-8 and PiDP-11\nsystems - a pair of scale-model simulations of DEC minis running on a\nRaspberry Pi using t he SimH simulator. His talk is entitled \"My Many\nMini-Minicomputers: Pee king Inside The PiDP\".\n\n_\"Lanny Cox is a lifelong computer enthusiast with great interest in\nthe DEC minicomputers of the 1960s and '70s\, but not much space to\nstore them\, or extra spare change to pay the power bil l. Luckily\,\nthough these computers are no longer in production\, a dedic ated\ncommunity of engineers have spent decades preserving their hardware\ nand software and making their computing environments available to a\nnew generation of users._\n\n_Join us for an exploration of DEC's significance in computing\nhistory\, a look at modern efforts to make computers like t he PDP-8 and\nPDP-11 accessible to home users\, and perhaps even a scale-m odel\ndemonstration of these iconic machines.\" _\n\nAll are welcome!\n DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc0820b5c DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240305T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240305T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/computer-museum-hardware-da y-march-5-2024 SUMMARY:Computer Museum Hardware Day March 5\, 2024 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Computer Museum will be hosting a hands-on even t with a variety of\nold computers and artifacts. \n\nWe will have a gues t speaker\, Devon Merner\, who will talk about how\nthe iMac G5 was used i n the development of the Xbox.  Includes live\ndemo.  Devon's talk start s at 2pm.\n\nMark your calendars! \n\nMore details to come.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682edc082126b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231028T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231028T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/hardware-day-october-28-202 3 SUMMARY:Hardware Day - October 28\, 2023 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nOur second Hardware Day of 2023 will be Saturday\, October 28\, 10am to\n4pm in DC2585.\n\nWe'll be testing old hardware to g et some of it running. Come join the\nfun! You can help or bring your own retro computer to show off\, or\njust see what's up.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T081048Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR