Students explore vintage computers in UW-Milwaukee’s specialized Retrolab
A specialized lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is giving students the chance to experience computing history firsthand, from late 1970s machines to early 2000s technology.
The Retrolab, housed in UWM’s History department, serves as a space where people can explore and interact with vintage computing technologies that shaped the digital age.
“It used to be that (technology) historians were able to assume that people would know what an Apple 2 or Apple Macintosh or IBC PC was and that they could write about the differences between those and how the computer technologies evolved since the first personal computers in the 70s. And that is just not the case anymore with today’s undergraduate students,” Professor Thomas Haigh, a history professor and chair of the history department, said.
Apple II, you damn kids. Apple II.
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