Hello all!
We hope you’re doing well and surviving midterms! It has been a busy two weeks for us at the lab.
Alien Screening on October 1st!
Tomorrow, located in ATC 3.705 at 7p.m., The Media Archeology Lab is once again collaborating with the Games & Media Library to host a movie screening! You will need your Comet Card to enter, so make sure you remember to bring it with you!
We hope to see you there.
Demo of the Week
The demo of the week is Unreal Tournament on our Dell PC!
Stop by during our open hours and enjoy a session of this classic game.
Object of the Week
The object of the week this week is the Apple Lisa!
If you are not already aware of it, the Apple Lisa is an extremely historically important computer. The computer cost $9,995 USD in 1983 upon its release, which is roughly equivalent to $32,171.64 today according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ online inflation calculator. Its operating system was called Lisa OS, and featured a very early graphical user interface (as opposed to being an Apple DOS or another command-line based operating system). You can read more about it from its article on computerhistory.org by clicking here.
| The Lisa: Apple’s Most Influential FailureCHM publicly releases the source code to Apple’s Lisa computer, including its system and applications software.computerhistory.org |
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
