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May 2, 2023
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April was a good start on spring! We had students in our secondary space to get hands-on with the Minitel collection, continued to host lots of students in the lab itself, and continued to work through our backlock of accessioning. Newly accessioned items include: a variety of early-gen FitBits, a preview of the upcoming Shift Happens by Marcin Wichary, an excellent little illustrated book titled Computers at Work and some HitClips (remember those?)

cover for small paperback titled COMPUTERS AT WORK by John O.E. Clark. indicates it is part of the "knowledge through colour" series". black background, white text, with illustration showing a flow chart from an analog computer to gamma camera and patient, two-channel analog to digital converter, color tv monitor, and two other unlabeled illustrations of machines
HitClips player with headphone, plus 3 music chips: Madonna "Music", Village People "YMCA", and Britney Spears "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman".

In the ongoing pursuit of further radio skills, libi & Lori have started to learn Morse code. To that end, the lab now houses 2 Morserino-32 Morse code devices, one of which has been assembled so far. They’ll allow for a variety of learning modes and for more experiments with our HAM licenses. More detailed info on them at www.morserino.info - they’re pretty great little gadgets.

morserino Morse code trainer

Lori and libi also attended & presented at the Radio Preservation Task Force Conference at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Lori gave a talk and mini workshop, “Media Archaeology: Preservation, Maintenance, and Repair,” and libi presented on MAL’s collections access techniques and strategies in a panel titled “Discovering and Describing New Collections”.

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Last bit of business, a reminder! We have an open call for proposals for residencies. The full text of the call can be found at tinyurl.com/MALresidency and the application form can be found at tinyurl.com/MALapp2023. If you’ve got questions, or want to run an idea by us, please reach out!


We’ll leave you with this great quote from Laurie Anderson, in the piece Four Talks at the Hirshorn: “IF YOU THINK TECHNOLOGY WILL SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGY - AND YOU DONT UNDERSTAND YOUR PROBLEMS”

Image from Laurie Anderson’s piece “Four Talks”. Floors and walls of a room painted black with writing and images painted on top in white

Cheers, friend, til next month!

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