Greetings and Salutations!
Last week’s film screening, which was located in the Games & Media Library.
Hello all! We hope you have been having a good first month of the semester. 😊
Before we get things started for this week, we’d like to extend a big thank you to everyone who came and watched Part 1 of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with us last Tuesday! We had an absolute blast hosting you all, and we hope you had a great time too.
(Not) Your Parents’ Board Games Night
Next week, on September 17th from 5:00pm-9:00pm in the ATC Lobby, we will be collaborating with the Games & Media Library to host a vintage board game night! Come stop by and experience old and forgotten table top games with us. If you have one of your own, feel free to bring it with you!
Demo of the Week
The demo of the week this week is Neverwinter Nights on the iMac G4!
Stop by the lab to play this classic RPG on a contemporary vintage machine!
Object of the Week
Our object of the week is the Tomy Chatbot!
The Tomy Chatbot was a remote-controlled robot from the mid 1980s that also had a built-in tape recorder. This allowed the owner of the robot to “deliver” a message. Because of the way the arms of the robot were designed, it was also able to carry a small tray around.
Unfortunately, it seems the poor Chatbot was overshadowed by its more well-known cousins, the Tomy Omnibot line of personal robots, as there is not as much information about it available as there are for the Omnibots. If you are interested in various personal robots from the early 80s-90s, this website hobbyist website from 2008 has a massive collection of information on them available. If you don’t like dated websites from 2008, they’ve also been briefly mentioned in a PCMag article as the “ultimate platform for vicarious, vulgar jokes” due to the ability to record pranks on them and send them into another room.
Lab Hours and Room Number
We are located in ATEC 1.705, right next to ATEC’s welcome center. Our open lab hours are:
Monday: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Tuesday: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Wednesday: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Thursday: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Friday: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Thank you for reading our newsletter! We hope to see you soon and wish you a stress-free week.
Sincerely,
The Media Archeology Lab
The University of Texas at Dallas
