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Thread #171928   Message #4236758
Posted By: Helen
11-Mar-26 - 11:03 PM
Thread Name: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth) pt 2
Subject: RE: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth) pt 2
This doesn't count as archaeology in the traditional sense, but then maybe old tech is archaeological, historically speaking.

This article was in the news today on ABC (Oz) - Iconic Australian-made pinball machines preserved for generations to come

A few years before I met my Hubby, although we were at Uni at the same time, he left in his last year of his Electronics Engineering degree to start working there. The job lasted a few years and then he went on to work at other IT/computer companies before spending his last few working years as a computer guy for the local schools run by the state Dept of Education. He is now retired.

When the pinball machines from that company are on display later this year at the National Film and Sound Archives in Canberra, I think we will travel down there to see them.

Interestingly, there are a lot of Oz folk and traditional music files in those archives as well, including John Meredith's sound files of interviews with Oz folk musicians. He wrote the books called Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women Who Sang Them, volumes 1 & 2 based on those interviews. And, archives are right up my ex-librarian alley as well so I think we will both enjoy the trip.