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photographs and digital images related to the APL programming language

Historical ContextIn the last decade of the 20th century, rapidly developing wireless communications infrastructure introduced millions of users to wireless data and voice communications using pagers and cellular phones (cellphones). At that time, it…

AES-286 Personal Computer model number 286, serial number 100309.

Historical context:LANPAR Technologies Inc. (also known as Les Technologies LANPAR Inc.), was a company founded in 1970 (as LANPAR Ltd.) by Rene Pardo in Markham, Ontario. Six years later, the company changed its name to LANPAR Technologies Inc.…

Historical context (by Z. Stachniak)In December 1971, Mers Kutt and Gordon Ramer incorporated Kutt Systems Inc. (later renamed as Micro Computer Machines or MCM) in Toronto, with the purpose of designing, building, and marketing a small desktop…

DY-4 Systems Inc. Challenger I microcomputer model number 953 Chassis, serial number S9538303008.

Two editions of 'The Best of the Computer Faires', volume 6 and 8, documenting the conference proceedings of the 8th west coast computer faire.

Historical context(Z. Stachniak)The commercialization of the transistor in the first half of the 1950s had a dramatic impact on the decade-old computer industry. The all-transistor computers were offered as early as 1953 and, by the end of the 1950s,…

Historical context:Academic computing in Canada started to develop in the early 1950s. The first commercial digital electronic computer—a Ferranti Mark I (nicknamed FERRUT)—was installed at the University of Toronto in 1952. For several years, FERRUT…

Historical contextBy Z. Stachniak with input from D. CuddyIn February 1981, telecommunications giant Northern Telecom announced the Displayphone – a landmark office automation product designed to integrate voice and data in a convenient, easy-to-use…