2 Oct
2013
2 Oct
'13
7:25 p.m.
Here are pictures of most of the MAL's collection:
http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/about/
About half of our computers are Apple because that's where my personal
research interests have been. I just finished writing a book, called
Reading Writing Interfaces, that looks at the overwhelming influence Apple
had, if only its marketing, on the shape of computing since '83 or '84.
Most of the lab is run by donations and by me tracking down donations
wherever I've been able to find them and it's also just so happened that
these are machines people have been willing to give the lab.
As soon as more funds materialize, I'll happily expand to include as many
other machines as I can afford. A complete lack of money seems about as
"real world" as it gets.
very much an adult, Lori
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Lori Emerson wrote:
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Lori Emerson
Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab
Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226
loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com
http://mediaarchaeologylab.com
Founded in 2009
It's always a pleasure to welcome new infants.
The MAL's strongest collection is its
historically important personal
computers from the late 1970s through the 80s and 90s - computers such as
the Apple II, Apple Lisa, and Apple Macintosh, as well as many early
works
Is there a reason what EVERY example is Apple? We hope that that doesn't
bespeak a brand bigotry, as is so often the case when academia seeks to
enter the real world.