Welcome Back!
We hope you had a fun spring break! We had a laid-back week at the lab since several of us had obligations during spring break.
Where are the iMac G3s?
Don’t worry, they’re not gone forever! They are simply at another location temporarily. They will be returned soon.
Demo of the Week
The demo of the week is Exploring Apple Logo on the Apple //c!
Stop by during open hours and come learn this old visual programming language!
Object of the Week
The object of the week is the Voyager Golden Record!
Of course, the copy we have in the lab is not the original Golden Record, which was made in 1977 and is currently on the Voyager traveling through interstellar space. This record was designed to attempt to educate any recipients that could discover the voyager about earth, the surrounding solar system, the human species, and other similar information. It contains images and audio (transcribed onto the disk) of nature, music, speech, and a message from Jimmy Carter, the U.S. president at the time. If you want to learn more, I recommend this page from NASA on the contents of the record, as well as this page from NASA explaining the images on front of the disk.
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: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Tuesday: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Wednesday: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Thursday: 4:00pm-6:00pm
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