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:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e416b5 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250318T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250318T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/open-house-computers-movies SUMMARY:Open House: Computers at the Movies CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nCome to the Computer Museum Open House on Tuesday M arch 18\, 11am to\n4pm in the Davis Centre Fishbowl (room 1301).\n\nOur th eme this time is \"Computers at the Movies\". We'll feature\ncomputers fro m movies and TV--some well-known and some fairly obscure.\nWe'll also be r unning a few of our older computers for you to try\,\nincluding a few vide o games inspired by movies or TV.\n\nAnd did you know scenes from a Hollyw ood movie were once filmed here\non campus\, in the famous computing centr e known as the \"Red Room\"?\nCome learn more and check out the clips!\n\n Finally\, we will also have some recent acquisitions on display.\n\nAttend ance is free! No sign-ups\, just drop by.\n DTSTAMP:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4998f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241026T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241026T160000 URL:/computer-museum/events/open-house-october-26-2024 SUMMARY:Open House - October 26\, 2024 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Computer Museum is having an Open House on Octo ber 26\, 2024 in DC\n1301.\n DTSTAMP:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4a532 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:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4adfc 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:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4bc2b DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240601 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240602 URL:/computer-museum/events/alumni-weekend-june-1-2024 SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend - June 1\, 2024 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Computer Museum will be open on Saturday June 1 \, 2024 to welcome\nvisiting alumni.\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4c462 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150527T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150527T153000 URL:/computer-museum/events/reading-artifacts-workshop- may-2015 SUMMARY:Reading Artifacts Workshop (May 2015) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\n Learn to \"read\" objects from UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ's rich c omputer history and\nhelp design an exhibit! \n DTSTAMP:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4cd40 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170704T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170704T110000 URL:/computer-museum/events/hardware-day-july-2017 SUMMARY:Hardware Day (July 2017) CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nABOUT\n\nIn July 2017\, we're putting some of our t reasures on display as part\nof a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of t he Faculty of\nMathematics.\n\nOn July 4\, Eric Manning\, Scott Campbell a nd Trevor Grove will be\ntalking as part of Hardware Day (videos will be a dded here).\nImmediately after the talks\, we'll open the exhibit in the M ath and\nComputer building\, room 3011. Until July 14 you can come and see :\n\n* Panels from the IBM 1620 and IBM System/360 Model 75--two critical\ ncomputers from the 1960s.\n * SuperPET and a SuperPET emulator\, so you c an go back to the early\n1980s and learn to program BASIC\, FORTRAN\, APL\ , COBOL\, or Pascal.\n * Vintage microcomputers\, terminals\, slide rules\ , and computer\nstorage devices\n * A 3D tour of the Red Room\n\nNormal vi siting hours are 10am to noon\, but contact us\nat computer.museum@uwater loo.ca to arrange a tour.\n\nIf you have any donations\, feel free to dro p them off as well or get\nin touch [/computer-museum/contact-us].\n\nWe' ll upload some photos as the exhibit unfolds!\n DTSTAMP:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4ed58 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:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682dd28e4fa35 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:20250521T131806Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR