Since 2025 word of the lab has been spreading and we’ve received several visits from journalists, which in turn has spread awareness of the lab among the local community and led to many new donations of equipment.
Cael Byne, “UWM Urban Spelunking Episode 3: RetroLab,” UWM Post, September 5, 2025. Read and watch it here.
Jason Groh. “Students explore vintage computers in UW-Milwaukee’s specialized Retrolab,” TMJ4 News, November 12, 2025. Read and watch it here.
Steven Melendez, “These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud,” Fast Company, February 2, 2026. Read it here.
Trevor Hook, “UWM-Milwaukee’s Retrolab Brings Decades of Computing History To Life,” Wisconsin Public Radio, February 10, 2026. Read and listen to it here.
Kiesen Williams, “From Floppy Disks to Apple Lisa, UWM’s Retrolab Rewinds Time,” JSOnline.com, Jul 20, 2026. Video report – watch it here.
Elena Metinidis, “UWM Retro Computing Lab Brings Childhood Tech Memories Back To Life,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 20, 2026 & Elena Metinidis, “Lab Brings Retro Tech to Students,” USA Today, July 27, 2026, A1. This story was published in our hometown Milwaukee newspaper and a week later picked up nationally for the cover of USA Today.
The stories came with an online photo gallery.