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Nortel Europa(description courtesy of Mobile Phone Museum)The Nortel One (also known as the Europa handset) was an early instance of what’s come to…
Photographs of former employees of Micro Computer Machines (MCM) and images of MCM promotional brochures used in the MCM exhibit and in the…
Historical context(by Z. Stachniak)The industrial revolution of the 19th century brought new manufacturing methods and with them the ability to…
Historical context(by Z. Stachniak)Cognos Incorporated, formerly known as Quasar Systems Ltd., was a pioneering Ottawa-based software company renowned…
Historical contextCommodore International Ltd. (or Commodore) was one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic hand-held calculators as well…
Historical contextCommodore International Ltd. (or Commodore) was one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic hand-held calculators as well…
An image of the Ottawa office of Computel Systems Ltd.
The NetWinder was a compact, high-performance, low power computing designed by Corel of Ottawa and released in 1998. It was a RISC-based machine…
Historical Context:In the 1950s, the operators of mainframe computers used dedicated consoles, hardcopy terminals (such as teletypes and modified…
Historical context(by Z. Stachniak)Early microprocessor-based computers (microcomputers) presented a cost-effective and low-maintenance alternative to…