{"id":2299,"date":"2016-11-09T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=2299"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:36:59","slug":"vintage-computing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Vintage Computing\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to 杏吧原创 University\u2019s Vintage Computing Collection, where we showcase the history and evolution of computing through microcomputers and historic artifacts. Discover the remarkable legacy of technology that has shaped our world.<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/HP4155-display-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/HP4155-display-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"HP4155 display\" class=\"wp-image-23891\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"vintage-computing-posts\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vintage Computing Posts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    \n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white cu-section--cards ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\" data-attributes=\"&#x7B;&quot;blockType&quot;&#x3A;&quot;cards&quot;,&quot;contentType&quot;&#x3A;&quot;post&quot;,&quot;currentPage&quot;&#x3A;1,&quot;blockBackground&quot;&#x3A;&quot;white&quot;,&quot;numberOfColumns&quot;&#x3A;3,&quot;numberOfPosts&quot;&#x3A;6,&quot;showImages&quot;&#x3A;true,&quot;showDates&quot;&#x3A;true,&quot;showTimeToRead&quot;&#x3A;true,&quot;showExcerpts&quot;&#x3A;true,&quot;showFilter&quot;&#x3A;false,&quot;taxName&quot;&#x3A;&quot;category&quot;,&quot;moreButton&quot;&#x3A;&quot;none&quot;,&quot;categories&quot;&#x3A;&quot;144&quot;,&quot;tags&quot;&#x3A;&quot;&quot;&#x7D;\" data-page=\"2\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n                \n        <div class=\"cu-loading hidden text-center mx-auto h-6 w-6 animate-spin rounded-full border-4 border-solid border-current border-r-transparent align-[-0.125em] motion-reduce:animate-[spin_1.5s_linear_infinite]\" role=\"status\">\n    <span class=\"!absolute !-m-px !h-px !w-px !overflow-hidden !whitespace-nowrap !border-0 !p-0 ![clip:rect(0,0,0,0)]\">\n        Loading&#8230;\n    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n                                        \n        <p class=\"cu-no-posts hidden\">\n            No\n            category\n\n            posts are available.\n        <\/p>\n\n                <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n                        \n                    \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100 group duration-300 ease-in hover:scale-[1.02] hover:shadow-cu-black-200\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2026\/trade-apple-gs-for-tandy-trs-80-model-1\/\">\n\n                    <figure class=\"mb-2 overflow-hidden rounded-t-lg\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/10\/trade-tracker-600x400.png\" alt=\"Retro trade tracker\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>\n            <\/figure>\n        \n        \n            <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n        <div class=\"flex flex-row w-full gap-1\">\n\t\t\t                    <time datetime=\"2026-10-03T20:00:00-04:00\" class=\"block italic text-sm text-cu-black-600\">\n        October 4, 2026\n    <\/time>\n\n                                <\/div>        \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    TRADE: Apple ][ GS for Tandy TRS-80 Model 1\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n\n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6 dark:text-white font-normal\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700 dark:text-white \">\n                    杏吧原创 Vintage Computing has added a significant new system to the collection through a trade: a Tandy\/Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. Introduced in 1977, the\n                                            &#8230;\n                                    <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n            \n                    \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100 group duration-300 ease-in hover:scale-[1.02] hover:shadow-cu-black-200\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2026\/lost-45-year-old-canadian-computer-resurfaces-heads-to-carleton-for-unboxing\/\">\n\n                    <figure class=\"mb-2 overflow-hidden rounded-t-lg\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2026\/09\/AES_90_promo-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"York University Computer Museum (YUCoM)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>\n            <\/figure>\n        \n        \n            <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n        <div class=\"flex flex-row w-full gap-1\">\n\t\t\t                    <time datetime=\"2026-09-01T20:00:00-04:00\" class=\"block italic text-sm text-cu-black-600\">\n        September 2, 2026\n    <\/time>\n\n                                <\/div>        \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Lost 45-Year-Old Canadian\u00a0Computer\u00a0Resurfaces, Heads to 杏吧原创 for Unboxing\u00a0\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n\n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6 dark:text-white font-normal\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700 dark:text-white \">\n                    Vintage computing has a history of legendary&nbsp;rediscoveries&nbsp;and this one might be the most quietly Canadian of them all.&nbsp;In 2023, the retro-computing world was electrified when\n                                            &#8230;\n                                    <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n            \n                    \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100 group duration-300 ease-in hover:scale-[1.02] hover:shadow-cu-black-200\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2026\/carleton-launches-vintage-computing-at-the-scs-open-house\/\">\n\n                    <figure class=\"mb-2 overflow-hidden rounded-t-lg\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/PXL_20260303_134201290-2-scaled-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of vintage computing in display case (Osborne 1, Apple IIe, Super PET)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>\n            <\/figure>\n        \n        \n            <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n        <div class=\"flex flex-row w-full gap-1\">\n\t\t\t                    <time datetime=\"2026-03-30T20:00:00-04:00\" class=\"block italic text-sm text-cu-black-600\">\n        March 31, 2026\n    <\/time>\n\n                                <\/div>        \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    杏吧原创 Launches Vintage Computing\u00a0at the SCS Tutorial Lab Open House\u00a0\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n\n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6 dark:text-white font-normal\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700 dark:text-white \">\n                    After more than a decade in the making, the 杏吧原创 Vintage Computer display has officially launched in room Herzberg 4155 during the School of Computer\n                                            &#8230;\n                                    <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n        <\/div>\n        \n                                    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/vintage-computing-posts-archive\/\">Vintage Computing Posts Archive<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n    <div class=\"cu-imagegrid cu-imagegrid-4 cu-component-updated grid not-prose md:grid-cols-3 max-w-5xl gap-1 md:gap-2\">\n        \n    \n\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden aspect-[4\/3] bg-cover bg-center col-span-1 md:order-1 lg:order-none rounded-lg bg-black\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/PXL_20260303_134434817-768x577.jpg); background-position: 53% 48%;\">\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    \n\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden aspect-[4\/3] bg-cover bg-center col-span-1 md:order-1 lg:order-none rounded-lg bg-black\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/PXL_20260325_151630924-2-768x577.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    \n\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden aspect-[4\/3] bg-cover bg-center col-span-1 md:order-1 lg:order-none rounded-lg bg-black\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/PXL_20260303_134257953-768x577.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\">Vintage Computing Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-about\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    杏吧原创\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-about\">\n            \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1942, 杏吧原创 University has grown alongside the evolution of modern computing, with it 杏吧原创 University&#8217;s School of Computer Science established in 1980 at the start of the microcomputing revolution. The university\u2019s collection showcases influential microcomputers from the late 1960&#8217;s onward, a time when computing was expensive and inaccessible to most individuals. Spanning every major era of microcomputing, the collection highlights both breakthroughs and setbacks that shaped today\u2019s technology, with the goal of deepening understanding of computing\u2019s origins, operation, and future possibilities while inspiring the next generation of innovators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The School holds more than 200 vintage computers, though only about one-third of the collection can currently be displayed. We are actively seeking partners and supporters who can help us preserve, maintain, and showcase the full collection, ensuring these important milestones in computing history remain accessible for education, research, and public engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/people\/\">People associated with vintage computing at 杏吧原创<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-vision\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Vision\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-vision\">\n            \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 杏吧原创 University Vintage Computing Collection is a hands-on preservation, education, and community space dedicated primarily to preserving microcomputing history and an important part of technological and cultural history that is often underrepresented or missing from existing collections. We are neither a conventional museum nor simply a hobbyist club: we combine responsible stewardship with practical access, technical knowledge, and active participation. We preserve and document computers, software, peripherals, and the stories around them, while giving students, volunteers, researchers, and visitors the opportunity to encounter computing history directly and learn through meaningful hands-on work.<br><br>Our collection has a strong local and Canadian focus, including computers designed, built, used, or significant in Ottawa and across Canada. Microcomputing was an international movement that captured the imagination of hobbyists, students, businesses, and families around the world. Canada played an important part in that journey as a place where computers were designed, built, sold, used, taught, and adapted while Canadian users and companies participated in the wider technological and cultural transformation that shaped personal computing globally. For that reason, we preserve both Canadian systems and a broad range of international microcomputers, including major commercial platforms, educational and home computers, influential hobbyist machines, and lesser-known or regional systems that might otherwise disappear. This wider scope places local history within the larger story of how microcomputing changed everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a living collection and a place for interdisciplinary learning. Traditional museums often must limit handling and operation in order to meet strict long term conservation requirements, while informal clubs may lack dedicated space, continuity, or resources for substantial collections and public programming. We fill the space between these models by caring for artifacts responsibly while, where appropriate, maintaining them as working systems for demonstrations, workshops, repair and restoration, research, and regular events. In learning computer history and helping curate the Collection, participants develop an unusually broad range of practical skills: computer science, computer gaming and software history, networking, cybersecurity, electrical engineering, electronics repair, industrial design, business, art, history, museum and archival technologies, technical documentation, and event organization. We believe microcomputers are preserved not only when they are stored safely, but when their operation, software, design, and human experience can still be studied, demonstrated, repaired, and shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can explore our evolving collection here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/\">School of Computer Science Vintage Computing Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-displays\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Displays\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-displays\">\n            \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The School of Computer Science was founded in 1980 and has retained some of its and the universities computing artifacts. Currently the school maintains the following vintage computing displays and artifacts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/\">Vintage computer collection,<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/tech-support\/vintage-computing\/hallways-displays\/\">Three hallways displays,<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/tech-support\/vintage-computing\/hanging-displays\/\">Five hanging display.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-visiting-the-collection\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Visiting the Collection\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-visiting-the-collection\">\n            \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Group visits are possible by appointment and during special events. Please contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/andrew-miles\/\">SCS Technical Staff<\/a> for tours and availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/carleton-vintage-computing-for-educators\/\">杏吧原创 Vintage Computing for Educators<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-carleton-vintage-computing-group-volunteers\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    杏吧原创 Vintage Computing Group (Volunteers)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-carleton-vintage-computing-group-volunteers\">\n            \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 杏吧原创 Vintage Computing (CVC) Group is a student, faculty, and staff led community that helps keep 杏吧原创\u2019s Vintage Computing Collection alive. We are somewhere between a <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">club <\/strong>and a <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">museum<\/strong>: we care for historic computers, but we also power them on, learn how they work, repair them, and share them with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can get hands-on experience with important Ottawa area, Canadian, and international microcomputers many of which are difficult to find or use anywhere else. Whether you are into old games, hardware repair, programming, design, history, VR, or simply curious about early technology, there is something meaningful to work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What You Can Do<\/strong><br>Choose projects that match your interests and skills:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Test computers<\/strong>, peripherals, drives, and software; try to boot systems and record what you find.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help diagnose and <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">repair vintage hardware<\/strong>, including electronics, keyboards, disk drives, monitors, and power supplies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Learn<\/strong> early programming languages and operating systems; write a small program or demo for an older machine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explore and <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">document <\/strong>classic computer games and the systems that ran them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research the <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">stories <\/strong>behind computers, software, companies, and their connections to Ottawa and Canada.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create displays, labels, graphics, videos, web content, or interactive exhibits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help build a vintage computing <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">VR experience<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help run <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">demonstrations<\/strong>, workshops, tours, and public events.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lots more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>CVC is a way to build practical experience in computer science, networking, cybersecurity, electronics, electrical engineering, repair, industrial and graphic design, gaming, history, museum technology, research, documentation, and event planning. You do not need to be an expert, just bring curiosity and a willingness to learn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ready to get involved? Fill out our Vintage Computing Volunteer and Project Interest Form today and we will add you to our Teams group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/vintage-computing-volunteer-and-project-interest-form\/\">Vintage Computing Volunteer and Project Interest Form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-donations\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Donations\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-donations\">\n            \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have vintage computing equipment you would like to donate to the 杏吧原创 University School of Computer Science? 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