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Historic Computing Lab @ UVic Libraries

video camera recording computer graphics off an old Telidon terminal

Publications

Research undertaken by the Lab is described or mentioned in the following publications.

John Durno, John Aycock, and Alexandra Tenney. 2025. Big Baggy Shorts: Recovering Data From Canada’s Telidon System, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 47(1) (Jan-Mar 2025), 64-71.

Lori Emerson. 2025. Other Networks: a radical technology sourcebook. [S.I.]: Anthology Editions. [section "Teletext"]

John Durno. 2024. Telidon Regained: Emulating 1980s Canadian Videotex Art, in Francesca Franco and Andrés Burbano (eds.): RE:SOURCE 2023 [conference proceedings]. Resource Press, 2024.

John Durno. 2023. The Death and Improbable Resurrection of Telidon Art, in Lavery, Lauren (ed.): Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story [exhibition catalogue]. Peripheral Review and InterAccess.

John Durno. 2021. Extending Capacities in Digital Archaeology: Study Leave Report. UVicSpace, 2021-11-05

John Durno. 2019. Videotex Art Restoration: Technical and Conceptual Challenges [poster]. iPres 2019, [Proceedings] [UVic Repository]

John Durno. 2019. "Machine stitched into a corner of the Canadian modern age flag": Glenn Howarth's Telidon art. University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives, [part of [untitled]: The Artists' Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries ]

John Durno. 2017. Interactive NAPLPS (Telidon 709) graphics on a modern computer: Technical note. UVicSpace

John Durno. 2016. Digital archaeology and/or forensics: working with floppy disks from the 1980s. Code4Lib Journal, October 2016

John Durno. 2016. Building capacities in digital archaeology: study leave report. UVicSpace, October 2016

John Durno. 2016.Displaying NAPLPS (Telidon 709) graphics on a modern computer: Technical note. UVicSpace, June 2016

John Durno. 2015. Digital forensics on a shoestring: a case study from the University of Victoria. Code4Lib Journal, January 2015

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