Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators’ Way
Many retrocomputing enthusiasts have to deal with decayed elastomers. Here’s some advice from museum professionals and lab members.
Plugging Into the Present with Early-2000s PDA Cameras
Before becoming one of strongest bullet point in mobile tech specs, cameras were accessories you had to buy separately. Were they worth that?
Meet 1990s IBM, Trying To Sell OS/2 to Football Fans
Turning a workstation software brand into a Fiesta Bowl title sponsor might have made sense to someone.
Looking Back at Apple’s No-Button Music Player
With the 2009 iPod Shuffle, the company which made touch screens mainstream tried to get rid of on-device controls.
Preserving the Impact of Compact Disc Publications
Digital archivists are saving cultural works stuck on computer CDs. How are they doing that—and whom?
For Some Software, “There’s No Clearing House”
Media preservation musings of a top hat-wearing Internet Archive historian.
Wii Was a Celebration of TV’s Visual Culture
Nintendo’s mid-2000s motion control sensation was inspired by television in more ways than it might have seemed.
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