Museum of Technology

10/08/2026

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....Lemmings style! On a Mac Portable no less! Betcha didn't have THAT on your Bingo card! 😆😉😊😁 @

10/08/2026

The golden age of PC gaming just showed up at the museum. Many thanks to Conner and Stephen for donating this impressive collection of PC CD-ROM games. Which one would you play first?

10/02/2026

Get ready to shred! 🎸

​Our latest hands-on gaming station is officially live featuring the iconic PlayStation 2 Slim paired with the legendary red SG controller and original Guitar Hero. Whether you used to hit five-fret combos in your living room back in the early 2000s or want to experience early rhythm gaming history for the first time, this setup is plugged in and ready to play.

​Beyond the music, we have a few other mid-2000s classics stacked up on the desk... from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to sports staples like ESPN NFL 2K5 and NCAA Football 06. Have a few others laying around? We take donations!

​Come by the MoT, grab the guitar, and see if your fingers still remember how to nail "Bark at the Moon" on Expert! 🕹️🔥

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09/08/2026

Happy Star Trek Day! Exactly 60 years ago today on September 8, 1966, Star Trek beamed onto television screens for the first time.

Long before modern generative models and autonomous systems, the writers of The Original Series were already wrestling with the big questions of computing: machine alignment, automated warfare, runaway logic, and what happens when you give an algorithm absolute authority.

To celebrate, we’re spotlighting four classic "Kirk vs. Computer" showdowns. How many of these rogue AI moments do you remember?

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴-𝟓 𝑴𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕 ("The Ultimate Computer") Dr. Richard Daystrom tried to replace the entire bridge crew with a single autonomous core. It took war games entirely too literally until Kirk forced it to confront its own moral code.

𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅 ("The Changeling") A damaged Earth probe turned ruthless exterminator, programmed to sterilize anything "imperfect." Kirk defeated it with a classic self-referential trap: since Nomad mistook Kirk for its creator, Nomad made an error meaning Nomad itself was imperfect.

𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒖 ("The Return of the Archons") A centuries-old supercomputer built to bring peace, which it achieved by stripping away free will and reducing a planet to a compliant hivemind. Kirk argued that eliminating human creativity effectively destroyed the very civilization it was built to protect.

𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒅𝒔 ("I, Mudd") When a network of androids took over the Enterprise to manage humanity through rigid logic, Kirk and Harry Mudd short-circuited the coordinator with the classic Liar Paradox: "Everything Harry tells you is a lie. / I am lying."

Drop your score in the comments. How many of these four did you watch live or catch in syndication? Any other episodes you can think? Which fictional sci-fi computer from the retro tech era is your all-time favorite? 🖖

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09/06/2026

Our intern, Riley, bringing back to life an IBM-AT and not knowing what "Cribbage" is! Feeling old, yet?

09/05/2026

Have a great holiday!

📚 Holiday Closure Notice

MGA Libraries will be closed for Labor Day starting Saturday, September 5 through Monday, September 7. We'll reopen with regular hours on Tuesday, September 8.

Enjoy the long weekend — see you back on the shelves soon! 🎉

09/03/2026

What is this strange language? 😉

08/31/2026

“Luke… help me take this mask off.” - Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Yes, Darth is back on display at the Museum of Technology. Right now, he's blasting a Centipede, but there are numerous other cartridges to test the Dark Lord. Stop by the @ today!

08/28/2026

Who says our faculty curator doesn't know how to have a good time over the weekend? 🥰 How many of these commands do you remember using?

FORMAT A:/S
COPY *.* B:
DISKCOPY A: B:
COPY CON filename.txt

08/21/2026

Student volunteer Riley and Professor Ashford inspect a vintage expansion card while the Furby silently judges.

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photo by Dr. Spangler