RetroComputing

Technology’s rapid development over the past seventy years has left behind generations of “obsolete” computers that nevertheless retain significant educational, historical, cultural, and aesthetic value. Apple IIs, iPods, Commodore 64s, and other vintage technologies are physical portals into “old” relationships with computers and computing that nevertheless feel quite “new” to modern eyes. Building on the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities’ (MITH) long-standing collections of vintage computers and video game systems, RetroComp designs creative ways to breathe new life into yesterday’s technologies.