Compartment 4
This small Tivoli Audio PAL radio, designed by Henry Kloss, is one of dozens or perhaps hundreds of miscellaneous e-waste items that were collecting dust for decades in my grandparents’ house. It was on a shelf in the second floor study. I haven’t checked if it still works – perhaps it does. Henry Kloss made good audio devices.
Henry or Judy might have purchased this radio from Radioshack in the late 90s or early 2000s. They both have been known to buy electronics, sometimes even ones that they didn’t need. It was most probably used in the study where I found it, to listen to jazz or classical music on stations like WHRB.
Henry probably kept it playing in the study while he sat at the desk, reading over patient notes or financial documents on his computer, or playing Snood, or solitaire, or surfing the web.1
Henry might have fallen asleep at times at the desk while it was playing, snoring loudly along with bebop cuts curated by Harvard students.
-
When I knew him, my grandfather liked to sit at the computer a good amount and often played Snood and solitaire, which his grandchildren also enjoyed. Snood is not a physical game on a CD – it was shareware, downloaded via the Internet in its heyday.
Because it’s a purely digital artifact, I can only include Snood on this website – I couldn’t find any phsyical evidence of all the hours Henry, myself, and my cousins spent playing Snood in the office at 37GGE to put on the physical shelf and I didn’t feel like making anything physical to represent this ephemeral digital experience we shared. So I’m writing about it here, and will probably write more about it in later sections too.
For those who don’t know what it is, here’s an image of the gameplay:
