Browse Collections (15 total)
Computel Systems Ltd Archive

The first commercially manufactured computers appeared in 1951. By the mid-1960s, the computer industry was well established and the broad benefits of…
James L. Belyea Archive
Commander James Louis Belyea, Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), is best known for his original, pioneering work on the DATAR system that he initiated at RCN…
Contributors: J.L. Belyea
DATAR Archive

DATAR (Digital Automatic Tracking and Remoting) was a comprehensive digital electronic system developed at the Royal Canadian Navy between late 1940s…
Matrox Collection

Matrox Electronic Systems was established in Montreal in 1976 at the peak of the North American computer hobby movement and the beginning of the rapid…
Northern Electric—Nortel Networks Collection

Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1895. It's main business was the manufacturing of telephone equipment…
ATI Collection

ATI Technologies Inc. was an electronics corporation and a world leader that specialized in the design, development, and manufacture of computer…
APL Collection

The origin of the APL programming language is Kenneth Iverson's mathematical notation that he developed in the late 1950s and subsequently published…
I.P. Sharp Associates APL Collection

I.P.Sharp Associates (IPSA) was formed in 1964 in Toronto as a software company by eight individuals including founding president Ian Sharp. From an…
Micro Computer Machines Collection

In April, 1972, Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, California, announced its first 8-bit microprocessor — the 8008. In just a few months, the prototypes of…
DY-4 Systems Collection

DY-4 Systems Inc. was an Ottawa-based high technology company founded by four engineers Garry Dool, Terry Black, Kim Clohessy, and Steve Richards in…