“Sometimes it sounds like an old steam engine,” she says. “And it’s incredibly hard to read.” Welcome to Emerson’s Media Archaeology Lab, where old computers don’t come to die, but rather to be ...

Nicolas Temese's miniature model of the IBM 1401 computer system. The real version was created in 1959 and rented for $2,500 a month (£2,032, AU$3,641). Nicolas Temese ...