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past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations website: www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/ calendar: mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org/ news: mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 9h
RIP to Margaret Hamilton. Her picture hangs out in our storage media demo box, so we can talk to students about getting to the moon on 1/6000000th the RAM of their iPhone. www. nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obituaries/margaret-hamilton-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFE.bx1O.RusUdZLMA7_k
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 20h
"Its significance is more interesting than that. It was one of the machines experimenting with the relationship between computers and music before that relationship became completely ordinary." I'm a huge MAL fan and in their newsletter you learn a ton about the history & sociology of media tech! 🧪
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we're accessioning again
Prodigy for Windows CD. Attractive woman looks into the camera. Text says "It all started when I typed hello." Smaller badge reads ""Amber" got into Prodigy Chat on Thursday, 11:38 PM"
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh hey, do you like experimental games and interactive experiences? Are you wondering what to do with yourself on Saturday November 7th? Come to the Whaaat!? Festival! MAL will be hosting an arcade space as always & we'd love to see you there whaaat.io/ whaaat.io
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Whaaat!? Festival 2026
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we're having a MAL-o-ween art party on Wednesday Oct. 14th! We'll be in the main lab from 3-5 with snacks, a collaborative zine, and plenty of spooky dusty tech to make art with - including a newly-fixed 1940s spirit duplicator!
MAL-o-ween Art Party Wednesday October 14th 3-5 PM the media arcaheology lab 1320 Grandview Ave
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is in one week! It will be fun!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we'll be hosting a collage-your-own-tarot event in the MAL pop-up space (CASE building, room W250) all day on October 12! Join our fantastic grad resident Colleen and explore the history of tarot as a technology of meaning-making and make your own cards!
Collage your OwnTarot Monday October 12 9am - 5pm CASE W250 Drop in anytime during the day to collage your own tarot cards. This workshop celebrates tarot as a technology of collective meaning-making. Participants are invited to submit their cards to an upcoming group exhibition. All are welcome. Tarot decks and collage materials will be provided. Info: mediaarchaeology@colorado.edu
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
is this the weirdest way we have ever tuned in to 1190.radio? maybe! that is, yes, an AM radio adapter cassette.
wide view of cassette player with cassette tuner packclose view of AM cassette tuner pack
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026
you want to see 20 year olds trying out flag semaphore through a window and morse code from across the room, right? I thought so! #othernetworks @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
visible through a glass window with rainbow vinyl decals running along the bottom of it is a young woman in sweatshirt and jeans doing flag semaphore with her arms and behind her and to her left is a young man in a black t-shirt and black jeans signalling the same letter with flagsa young man wearing a purple sweatshirt, black jeans, and brown boots sits on a metal chair and transmits morse code through a telegraph key; the output of the electrical signals is a flashing red light
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're very excited to announce that our new MAL Correspondent, Marin Mendell, will be writing short articles about artifacts and experiences in the lab. Her first piece, on the Yamaha CX5M, is available to read in our latest newsletter & also as a standalone on archive archive.org/details/yama...
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The Computer That Wanted to Make Music
Article by MAL Correspondent Marin Mendell about the Yamaha CX5M Music Computer
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October newsletter is up because we are very prompt and professional mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/october-2/
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Happy MAL-o-ween!
We're treats-only this issue, no tricks. We have some newsbits and upcoming events, plus the first article from our new MAL Correspondent – all just for you! Get a copy of our Apple Lisa repair zine...
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our new zine, 'How to Spend Ten Years Repairing a Computer and Why You Should Too', is here! We'd like to send out some free copies, so the first 50 emails with the subject line "Zine, please" to mediaarchaeology+zine@proton.me will get a copy (U.S. only, sorry folks)
4 copies of How to Spend Ten Years Repairing a Computer and Why You Should Too
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the MAL embassy will be at Whaaat?! this year - join us if you can https:// whaaat.io/
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Whaaat!? Festival 2026
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 26/09/2026
lovely Saturday afternoon spent listening to the radio and finishing up construction of the very human, intentionally rough zine @rose-alibi.interferencer.com and I made for the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social: "How to spend ten years repairing a computer and why you should too" #othernetworks
four copies of a black and white zine arranged in a fan on a grey metal table. the cover is supposed to signal that it was designed on an Apple IIe computer using Print Shop and then printed on an ImageWriter printer. the zine has been sewn together using turquoise and pink thread, also clearly visible at the top and bottom of the bindinga pile of unbound zines, several piles of bound zines, a paper towel with a pile of scraps of pink and turquoise binding thread, a zine open to the last page with a black pen holding it open, and a box of finished zines all sit atop a grey metal desk
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
starting our Friday correct with the campus radio station https:// 1190.radio/
our little Arvin solid state radio, beige with fancy typeLast played > 10:08 AM Anti-Flag ‘Anatomy Of Your Enemy’ from Mobilize (A-F Records, 2006) 10:06 AM Bad Religion ‘Land Of Competition’ from Suffer (Epitaph, 1988) 10:03 AM Reel Big Fish ‘Beer’ from Turn The Radio Off (SME, 2013)
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the activity we did with students today, and we'd love to hear your responses as well... 1. Pick an older device you have access to.
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the activity we did with students today, and we'd love to hear your responses as well... 1. Pick an older device you have access to.
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we'll be hosting a collage-your-own-tarot event in the MAL pop-up space (CASE building, room W250) all day on October 12! Join our fantastic grad resident Colleen and explore the history of tarot as a technology of meaning-making and make your own cards!
Collage your OwnTarot Monday October 12 9am - 5pm CASE W250 Drop in anytime during the day to collage your own tarot cards. This workshop celebrates tarot as a technology of collective meaning-making. Participants are invited to submit their cards to an upcoming group exhibition. All are welcome. Tarot decks and collage materials will be provided. Info: mediaarchaeology@colorado.edu
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
last one for the week - the Star Trek Communicator walkie talkie set. they're little, they're plastic, they only vaguely resemble the ones on the show - but boy oh boy are they cute
2 blue flip-front walkie talkies
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it's the 60th anniversary of Star Trek's first air date and we have *so much* Star Trek media in the lab that maybe we will just share some of it all week...
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
september newsletter - - - mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/september-3/
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september!
Not much to report as the semester gets going, so here's a selection of labor day reads for you. If you're in Boulder, come by the lab or the pop-up space during open house hours! We'll be back with m...
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
hey friends... we are looking for more recent but still obsolete game consoles to add to the colleciton - seventh and eighth generation machines, specifically. if you have something collecting dust that you'd like to see live out it's days in the technology retirement home, send us a message!
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Martine Mussies @martinemussies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New publication! 🎉💻 My first paper in computer science is out: "Retrocomputing as a Model for Sustainable and Cognitive Computing". Read it here: www.academia.edu/171932531/Re... #ComputerScience #Retrocomputing #HCI #SustainableComputing #CognitiveSustainability
A pciture of a 286 PC.
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our open house hours for fall semester, as of right now: Tuesdays: 1:30 - 4:30 PM Wednesdays: 2 - 5 PM (starting 8/26) Thursdays: 1 - 4 PM (starting 8/27) Fridays: 10 AM - 4 PM (Updates can always be found at mediaarchaeologylab.neocities.org)
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our August newsletter is belatedly up but it contains very timely news of our impending Practitioner in Residence cohort! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/its-still-au...
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it's still August
even though we're very late, sorry! The summer is finishing up & we're getting ready to dive headlong into a new school year! That means we have a new cohort of Practitioners in Residence to announce...
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Carrie Hott @hottlamp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As a long time admirer of this lab, I’m quite excited to be in this cohort!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our August newsletter is belatedly up but it contains very timely news of our impending Practitioner in Residence cohort! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/its-still-au...
mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io
it's still August
even though we're very late, sorry! The summer is finishing up & we're getting ready to dive headlong into a new school year! That means we have a new cohort of Practitioners in Residence to announce...
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
it's that time of year, when our schedule starts to fill up with class tours... but there's still room! are you teaching a class that would benefit from a virtual visit to the MAL collection? reach out (mediaarchaeology @ colorado .edu) and we'll see if we can arrange something!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
it's that time of year, when our schedule starts to fill up with class tours... but there's still room! are you teaching a class that would benefit from a virtual visit to the MAL collection? reach out (mediaarchaeology @ colorado .edu) and we'll see if we can arrange something!
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seyberspace.bsky.social @seyberspace.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you're ever in Boulder, CO, you should check out @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social My BF and I (both in our 50s) were simultaneously thrilled/feeling super old 🤣
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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Delighted to share that Binding Media has won the 2026 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature! So honored to received this particular award because Hayles' work taught me to think about the weird literary works I've always been interested in. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Philly folks only: the Big Ramp part of this event has been cancelled for heat and smoke. We will still be in-person at the main MAL in Boulder and live on Twitch!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
reminder: we are open 4:30-7:30 on Thursday (July 16)! come join us!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
hello, does anyone who follows us work at Apple and have the ability to fix our completely inaccurate open hours on Apple Maps?
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
one week left to apply!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
we are once again asking you to please take our stuff. there is a pile, it is on the porch. not all of it works, but all of it is free. (please don't take the rug)
monitor, mechanical cash register, broken tvs, other electronics scrap, books
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
we are once again asking you to please take our stuff. there is a pile, it is on the porch. not all of it works, but all of it is free. (please don't take the rug)
monitor, mechanical cash register, broken tvs, other electronics scrap, books
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
reminder: we are open 4:30-7:30 on Thursday (July 16)! come join us!
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
today on MALtv 🥲
the infamous "six foot turkey" scene from Jurassic Park plays on 7 different television screens in the MAL back room
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
today in stuff you didn't know you needed, a microfiche reader in a briefcase
propped open briefcase with a small screen showing an image of an air force ad with the space shuttle on it
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're throwing a book launch! Jazmyn Crosby wrote and riso printed the wonderful Other Networks: Interspecies Communication Operations Manual, in part researched during her stay with us last summer.
Interspecies Communication
Operations Manual
by Jazmyn Crosby

book launch and open house

Join us 3 ways!

Philadelphia: Big Ramp
2024 E, Westmoreland St,

Boulder: Media Archaeology Lab
1320 Grandview Ave, (Basement)

Online: twitch,tv
/mediaarchaeology

Thursday July 16
6:30-9:30 EDT/ |
4:30-7:30 MDT
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're throwing a book launch! Jazmyn Crosby wrote and riso printed the wonderful Other Networks: Interspecies Communication Operations Manual, in part researched during her stay with us last summer.
Interspecies Communication
Operations Manual
by Jazmyn Crosby

book launch and open house

Join us 3 ways!

Philadelphia: Big Ramp
2024 E, Westmoreland St,

Boulder: Media Archaeology Lab
1320 Grandview Ave, (Basement)

Online: twitch,tv
/mediaarchaeology

Thursday July 16
6:30-9:30 EDT/ |
4:30-7:30 MDT
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
this is your two week reminder! applications for the 2026/27 Practitioner in Residence cohort are due July 22! Come misuse some things creatively with us! Read the full prompt: drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-... Fill out the application: forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyU...
a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
this is your two week reminder! applications for the 2026/27 Practitioner in Residence cohort are due July 22! Come misuse some things creatively with us! Read the full prompt: drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-... Fill out the application: forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyU...
a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
a conversation we have on the regular - as a repository of physical hardware, when the media to play on that hardwdare becomes accessible only via a potentially ephemeral server, the hardware itself becomes obsolete much faster www.techspot.com/news/112985-...
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Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely...
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Elizabeth Hernandez @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Any professors/grad student at a Colorado university interested in talking about research or grant funding canceled under this federal administration & the impacts of that to your field/science/academia/career etc? I’d love to chat! Feel free to message me & pass along. #HigherEd #Edcolo
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
July newsletter is live! 2nd of the month, pretty good! mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/oh-my-july/
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oh my, July!
Hello, friends of the lab! We hope you're staying cool, wherever you are... even the basement is getting toasty these days. We have some biggish news bits and some fun and neat things for you this tim...
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SimCity 4: Rush Hour
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA
a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.
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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Every creative nerd I know should apply to this!! MAL is a treasure trove / rabbit hole of weird old tech and this is a rare chance to get hands-on with stuff that is hard to come by
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