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When was the last time you typed something on an actual typewriter with
no autocorrect, no spell checker and no “delete” button? Or played the video
game “Frogger” in glorious 8-bit, 16-colour graphics? Indeed, perhaps you
 crave replacing that annoying spreadsheet with a slide-rule and an abacus?

Intrigued? Then you’ll enjoy a visit to the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ Computer
 Museum, located in the Davis Centre (room DC1316).



The story of UW’s Computer Museum can be summed up by three Ps:
perseverance, preservation and presentation. Creating the Museum required
 15+ years of perseverance by key individuals who wanted to see the “��ݮ��Ƶ 
story” preserved and presented to the community. Significant artifacts, both
 hardware and software, were at risk of disappearing, and so preservation became
an important goal of the Museum. Over time, with an ever-expanding collection
of artifacts, the mission of the Museum evolved to presentation: using the
artifacts to interpret and tell the story of computing at ��ݮ��Ƶ, and beyond,
 and to provide a resource for scholarly historical research and teaching.

Read the full story on the Computer Museum in the Winter/Spring 2025 edition of WATtimes.