Hello all!
Welcome back! We hope you’ve been doing well. We had fun at the Gaming Gauntlet and enjoyed seeing you all there!
Ghost in the Shell Screening
Next week, the Media Archeology Lab and the Games & Media Library are collaborating again to screen a vintage copy of Ghost in the Shell!
This screening will take place on November 5th at 7p.m., inside the Games & Media Library’s room, ATC3.705, as usual. Come join us and watch this iconic film together!
Demo of the Week
The demo of the week is Microsoft Flight Simulator 1998!
Stop by the lab to play a vintage video game and fly airplanes from 20 years ago!
Object of the Week
The object of the week is the iBook G3, also known as the Clamshell!
These computers, released in 1999, were the contemporary laptop counterparts to the iMac G3s. Like the Jellybean iMac G3s, they were colorfully themed and ran versions of Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Despite looking like a plastic kid’s toy, these were fully functional and used for professional work. One of the more interesting parts of the outside design is that they have a built-in plastic handle near the hinge, so you can carry them around like you would a briefcase. To me, this sounds like an incredibly anxiety-inducing way to carry around a laptop, but the option is there for those that find it convenient I suppose!
Our iBook is a surprisingly solid machine for the time; it has 128MB, so I assume the original owner upgraded it (the original and SE iBook G3s both came with 64gb of RAM maximum, according to EveryMac). If you stop by and are interested in seeing it turned on, feel free to ask the student researcher hosting open lab hours when you visit.
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
