Jason Ellis – THATCamp Southeast 2013 http://southeast2013.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:43:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Play Session Proposal: RetroComputing http://southeast2013.thatcamp.org/03/08/play-session-proposal-retrocomputing/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:29:18 +0000 http://southeast2013.thatcamp.org/?p=246

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IMG_2603I would like to propose a play session on retrocomputing and platform studies. Hardware willing, I will bring two Macintosh Powerbooks from the early 1990s loaded with some software and an early, floppy disk-based ebook of William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy. While playing with these old computers, we can talk about reading these kinds of texts (hardware, software, games, written texts) and strategies for preserving/accessing digital texts.

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