Introduction and Icebreaker
Overview
Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 10 minQuestions
Who are we? Who are you?
Objectives
Introduce instructors and attendees to each other
Some background on your course designers:
Ethan Gates is the Software Preservation Analyst for Yale University Library, currently working primarily on the “Scaling Emulation and Software Preservation Infrastructure” (EaaSI, for short) project. He started, like many people, using emulators to access nebulously legal Nintendo ports on his laptop, and has been investigating using the technology in archival and media studies contexts since at least 2016.
Claire Fox is a media archivist and 2020 graduate of NYU’s M.A. program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. She interned at YUL working on the EaaSI project in summer 2019.
A few questions to reflect/get us started:
- Have you ever used an emulator before? What for?
- What’s your earliest memory of using a computer? What software/application were you using?
- Have you ever had trouble opening an old file? What did you do to fix or get around the problem?
Key Points
Keep your earliest software/computer you ever used in mind. We’ll try to circle back to it later!