Projects & Events
Altair Exhibit
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Altair 8800 microcomputer
2025-09-22
Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story
We are pleased to announce an online exhibition featuring our restorations of Canadian videotex artworks. Runs April 25th, 2025 through April 24th, 2030.
2025-04-25
Hypertext & Art
The Lab was honoured to host and sponsor the North American premiere of the Electronic Literature Lab's exhibition "Hypertext & Art: A Retrospective of Forms," curated by Dr. Dene Grigar, at DHSI 2024.
2024-06-14
Altair 8800 and 8800b restoration
An extensive restoration of the Lab's two Altair computers was recently completed.
2024-04-15
Remember Tomorrow (Gallery Exhibition)
Held at InterAccess media arts centre in Toronto, this exhibition features the lab's restorations of historic Canadian Telidon artworks
2023-09-06
Open house at IdeaFest 2020
The newly-opened Historic Computing Lab held a well-attended Open House as part of the Libraries Ideafest 2020 event, "Class of 2030: Your UVic Library of the Future."
2020-03-07
Retro Machines and Media
The HCL was pleased to host & support this 5-day workshop given at DHSI 2019, led by Dr. Dene Grigar (WSU).
2019-06-14
Traversal of Tim McLaughlin's "Notes Toward Absolute Zero"
The Lab was honoured to host author Tim McLaughlin conducting a traversal of his noted Canadian hypertext novel. The session was followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Dene Grigar, WSU
2019-03-01
Retro computing in the Library
An exhibition held in conjunction with the University's "IdeaFest", featuring hands-on displays, talks, and a floppy disk data recovery clinic. Held March 3, 2016.
2016-03-10