5 Questions: Libi Rose: Letting People Play with the Past

The Media Archaeology Lab is one of the largest public collections in the world of obsolete, yet functional, technology. Located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, the MAL is where you can watch a magic lantern show, play Star Castle on a Vectrex games console, or check out the weather on an Atari 800 via Fujinet. IEEE Spectrum spoke to managing director Libi Rose about the MAL's mission and her role in keeping all that obsolete tech functional, so that people of today can experience the media of the past.