Media Wanted

Selected items wanted for the Museum. Please get in touch if you think you may have something of interest.

If you’d like to support the Museum financially, it now has a Patreon page where you can make a small monthly contribution towards the purchase of new exhibits.

I’m unable to accept offers of media players due to space, but if you have any audio players, Andy Vizor at AVAV Systems may be able to offer them a home.

Audio

Phonograph Discs and Cylinders

  • 12 inch long-play variant of Edison Diamond Disc 1926-1929
  • 16 rpm record (10-inch or 7-inch only)
  • 5-inch Berliner disc (first marketed in 1889 in Europe)
  • 78rpm picture disc
  • Aluminium record master
  • Americom Pocketdisc
  • AT&T Peatrophone disc (L1 8-inch large disc needed, already have L2 small disc)
  • Averill cylinder [for talking dolls]
  • Bhutan phonograph stamps
  • Busy Bee cylinder
  • Concert cylinders
  • Cropan Album Tocadiscos (toy records that were spun with your hand)
  • Edison brown wax cylinder (1888 – 1902)
  • Ewico Dictation Roller Cylinder Record
  • Haeco-CSG record (late 1960s mono/stereo compatible system)
  • Lathe-cut CD (one side playable on a turntable)
  • Lioret cylinders (various sizes)
  • Lioret Phonographe cylinder (used to provide the voice of Bebe Jumeau talking doll as well as being released as a standalone phonograph)
  • Magic Talking Books [picture book with record on cover]
  • Mattel Charmin Chatty Doll records
  • Mattel Cynthia doll records
  • Mattel Rock Flowers Records
  • Motorola 3 Channel Stereophonic LP c.1958
  • Ozen records [Japan, for talking toys and dolls]
  • Panapic
  • Pink Lambert cylinder
  • Play n’ Show Phono Player disc
  • Playola toy phonograph
  • RCA Red Seal 78rpm record on red vinyl
  • RCA Victor early version of a long-playing record (Program Transcription discs)
  • Royal Purple Amberol cylinder (variant of Blue Amberol for high-end recordings) 1916-1920
  • Smart Format [examples of Smart Format items from Seranade Sounds UK other than mini cassettes]
  • Sopic Cap Record player
  • Talke Cigarette Cards (Durium Dubrico, 1930s)
  • Tiny Vinyl (4-inch records, 2020s)
  • United Record (1½-inch centre hole)
  • Universal Talking Toy Co. record cylinder for dolls
  • Vitaphone (motion picture sound system transcription disc)
  • Wilcox-Gay Recordio Disc (10-inches or Coin Recordio-Gram version)

Magnetic tape

  • Amerex Electronics Inc. Alpha spy recorder
  • Aristocart
  • Audio Craft CC-1 cassette
  • BASF Unisette
  • Bruel and Kjaer Tape Loop Cassette UD 0035
  • Citizen “Dengon Kun” message tape
  • Grundig magnetic recording roll for Teleboy / Stenorette 100
  • Hipac tape
  • Kenner Say It Play It
  • Loewe Optaphon (1951, West Germany, first magnetic tape into cassette)
  • Marathon cartridge
  • Nagra JBR tape
  • Orrtronics Tapette for the Automate car tape player (pre-recorded version of Tapette, 1962)
  • Sireko Tape Echo Cartridge
  • Stuzzi Tonband MT430 reels
  • Tapette talking book cartridge
  • TEAC Ocasse or Open Cassette
  • Teddy Ruxpin tape cartridge
  • Telefunken endless tape cartridge for answering machines
  • Telmar 1.75-inch Reel to Reel Tape for Portable Recorder (T-100)
  • Tonfunk MB1
  • Vity cassette (Nippon Electronics – Japan, 1962)
  • Zettler ‘Cassette N 64’

Other audio

  • American Girl Music Cartridge
  • Barrel from a barrel organ (like a large organ cob)
  • Blattnerphone (steel tape, BBC, 1929 – late 1940s)
  • Capital Cuff music box Cuff records
  • Cards for Sony one-station Clip radio
  • CD Text demonstration disc
  • Comptometer magnetic belt (Erase-O-Magic-Belt)
  • EMI EMIDICTA magnetic disc
  • Filmon Sound Belts (rare, pre-war Japan)
  • Fisher Price Play-A-Song Trumpet discs
  • Fisher Price Play-A-Song Piano discs
  • General Electric Play-Talk (magnetic disc recorder for children, 1950s)
  • Kenner Blow-A-Tune discs
  • Kenner Turn-A-Tune
  • Leadsinger Music Karaoke Music Cartridge
  • Mail-a-voice (like Recordon disc)
  • Mandolina-Roll
  • Mattel Instant Replay Racing Discs (1971)
  • Mattel Wind Up Player Guitar disc
  • Mattell Strum-Fun Getar
  • Memorox Paper Disc Recording (used in WWII US radio intelligence)
  • Memovox disc (12 or 16-inch versions)
  • Nickelodeon-O-Roll
  • Pallophotophone
  • Peirce Model 360 steel wire (USA, 1951)
  • Philips-Miller (1936 – early 1950s, Netherlands, cellulose diacetate film coated with a black dye as the recording medium, onto which a variable area optical soundtrack was engraved by a cutter)
  • Playmates Toys Amazing Ally ROM cartridge (1999)
  • Playasax Roll
  • Replica Golden Record from Voyager space mission
  • Retro Gramophone Musical Advent Calendar
  • Rolmonica rolls
  • SanDisk slotRadio card
  • Sawyers 7171 Magnetic Dictation Film
  • Shorinophone (grooved belt, pre-WWII Russian)
  • Sony Digital Audio Master Disc (MSD-1200)
  • Sounding cellophane aka light gramophone (optical, pre-WWII Russian)
  • Spartus talking horoscope clock cartridge
  • Talking Paper (optical, pre-WWII Russian)
  • Tanzbar Organette Automatic Accordion Rolls
  • Teddy Ruxpin digital cartridge
  • Tel-Electric perforated brass rolls for pianos
  • Triola-Zither-25-note-Roll, Barrel Organette
  • Victor/JVC AHD disc (audio version of VHD)
  • Worlds of Wonder Julie doll cartridge [1987]
  • Woverine Zilotone disc
  • Zettler A-Zet answering machine
  • Zettler Alibicord

Video

  • 1-inch Philips video tape (for machines such as the EL3400)
  • 2-inch IVC
  • 2View VHS
  • ACR 25 Quad cartridge
  • Akai ¼-inch tape on 10.5-inch reel for VT700
  • Beta hi-fi
  • Cinea S-View DVDs
  • D1 medium and large sizes
  • Disney Max Clip
  • DVCPRO (S and XL sizes)
  • DVCPRO HD (S and XL sizes)
  • DVCPRO50 (S, M and XL sizes)
  • Lineplex format (CVC cassette for Bosch Quartercam camcorder)
  • M video cassette
  • MUSE HI-Vision LaserDisc
  • Panasonic P2 card
  • Philips D6
  • RDI Halcyon (used LaserDiscs) (1985)
  • Sega / Tyco Video Driver (used VHS cassettes for games)
  • Shibaden-branded video tape for early (non-EIAJ) Shibaden VTRs
  • Sony AXS card
  • Sony CV
  • Sony SR Memory
  • Super Video CD (SVCD)
  • Takara Video Challenger (used VHS cassettes for games)
  • Tiger Electronics BattleVision (used VHS cassettes for games)
  • Uni-Hi HDVS videotape
  • V-Cord II
  • View-Master Interactive Vision (used VHS cassettes for games) (1988)

Data

Disk / Disc

  • 12-inch WORM discs such as LM1200 [different to later discs like my LM6000]
  • 3DO CD-ROM in longbox (already have a sampler CD but in a standard jewel case)
  • ATG Cygnet 12-inch optical disk
  • Audavi SecurePac / SolidTape / HardFilm cartridge
  • Blu-Ray Magazine Cartridge
  • Bootable business card (business card CD-ROM with Linux bootable distribution)
  • Brier Flextra / Flextra II (1989 3.5-inch floppy disk storing 25 or 50 MB)
  • Burroughs Mini Disk 3 (8 inch disk made by Burroughs)
  • CBHD (China Blue High Definition)
  • CDC Lark Cartridge 25 MB
  • CD-MO (early re-writable format from 1990)
  • CD-ROM for Mattel Hyperscan
  • DEC disk cartridge
  • DMA 370 cartridge
  • Double Density CD-RW (DDCD-RW)
  • Dragon Ball Z CD Picture Card
  • HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc)
  • IBM 2315 disk cartridge
  • IBM Demidiskette 4-inch (mid 1980s)
  • IBM Magnetic Disc Cartridge (for first floppy drive, the IBM 23FD)
  • Japanese 3.5-inch disc variant with 1.25 MB
  • Kodak 6800
  • Memorex FD/IV or FD/V disc cartridge for Memorex 651 Flexible Disc File drive
  • Manual shutter 3.5-inch micro floppy. Used on the Sony SMC-70, SMC 777 and the HP 150
  • Mididisk for the Swiss Lilith computer (CII-Honeywell Bull D120 drive)
  • NEC MC-2TD triple density 3.5-inch floppy (9.3 MB) for the NEC PC-88VA3
  • Nuon DVD
  • Optical Disk Cartridge OC321-2
  • Recordable Laser Videodisc (RLV)
  • SmartDisk FlashPath adaptor for Memory Stick or MultiMediaCard
  • Sonifex Discart (used floppy disks like a NAB cartridge machine)
  • Sony 12″ Magneto-optical disk / TrueWORM 1985 – 1992 [already have Plasmon LM6000 disc]
  • SVOD Disk cartridge
  • SyQuest 5 MB / 10 MB / 15 MB / 25 MB / 38 MB disks
  • SyQuest Quest disk (4.7 GB) (1998)
  • SyQuest SQ1080 disk (1.8″ Removable Cartridge Hard Disk Drive that fits in a drive in a PCMCIA slot)
  • VMedia
  • Wang Disk Pack (removable hard disk pack)

Data tape

  • 9162-0050 Hewlett Packard tape (looks like a streamer cassette)
  • Ampex DST (Data Storage Technology)
  • Compucolor Floppy Tape (1976, 8-Track cartridge for use with the Compucolor computer)
  • DEC TU60 data cassette (DECassette, Certified Digital Cassette)
  • DTF2 (both sizes)
  • Duncan  / Landis and Gyr magnetic tape reader cartridge
  • Entrepo Quick Data Drive (these are the same as wafadrive cartridges)
  • IBM 7-track tape (1952 – 1960s)
  • IBM 7340 Hypertape (1961 – 1971, 1-inch tape in a cartridge)
  • LINC tape
  • Megatape MDC 500 Data Cartridge
  • Microcassette for data
  • StorageTek SD-3 Redwood
  • UNISERVO tape (1952)

ROM Cartridges and Cards

  • AFP M1000/MP1000
  • Audiosonic PP-1292 Advanced Programmable Video System
  • Bandai Datach cartridge and barcode codes for the Famicom
  • Bandai Sufami Turbo cartridge for the Super Famicom
  • Bandai Super Vision 8000
  • Brother Kitchen Assistant Recipe Cookbook Computer
  • Canon ScriptCard
  • Casio PV-2000 (1983)
  • Coleco Adam cartridge
  • Commodore CDTV memory card
  • Entex Adventure Vision
  • Exidy Sorcerer
  • Fisher-Price Learn Through Music
  • Funtech Super A’Can (Taiwan only, 1995)
  • Grandstand Advanced Programmable Video System
  • Grundig Super Play Computer 4000
  • HP 48GX Calculator card
  • NEC Ultralite ROM card or SRAM memory card
  • Neo Geo X game card
  • Nichibutsu My Vision
  • Philips P2000T cartridge
  • Radofin 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System
  • Rollet Videocolor
  • Sega Advanced Pico Beena
  • Sega Master System (Japanese version)
  • Sinclair Timex 2068
  • Texas Instruments Speak & Spell
  • Tiger Electronics R-Zone
  • VideoBrain Family Computer (1977 – 1980)
  • VTech CreatiVision
  • VTech Socrates (1988)
  • Yamaha Electone [music with ROM card attached]

Solid State Media

  • 60 pin SRAM card
  • C-Map FP-Card
  • C-Map CF-85 card
  • CardBus
  • CFast
  • ExpressCard/54
  • Ez Share wi-fi SD card
  • Huawei Nano NM Memory Card
  • iVDR  / Sony SR memory cards
  • JEIDA card
  • Memory cards for synthesisers such as the Roland M-512E
  • Mitsubishi MELSEC Q2 MEM Memory Card
  • Navionics Microchart (PCMCIA format)
  • RedMag SSD
  • SanDisk SDXC (2009) (UHD-II or higher, so it has the second row of pins)
  • SmartDisk FlashPath adaptor for Memory Stick or MultiMediaCard
  • Sony Memory Stick XC (2009)
  • Tandy / Memorex VIS memory card
  • Xbox (original model) memory card
  • xD Picture card type M (2005)/M+ (2008)/H (2005)
  • XQD card

Other data formats

  • Canon memory card (XM or XP) for the Canon X-07
  • Card Callmaker auto-dialler card
  • Cauzin Softstrip (2D barcodes for software distribution)
  • Edge-notched cards
  • Hickok Cardmatic Tube Tester pre-punched card
  • Hoover Keymatic washing machine control card
  • HP Stat Pac
  • HP9100 magnetic card
  • IBM 2321 Data Cell
  • IBM MagCards (1969, used in IBM word-processors)
  • Instructograph Continental Training Tapes for Morse code
  • Kodak Digital Storage Unit for the Kodak Professional Digital Camera System (1991)
  • Magnetic drum memory
  • Nintendo 64 Memory Expansion Pak
  • Overhead projector transparency sets
  • Punch card toll road slip
  • Punch card voting slip
  • Punched tape used with telegraphs

Film

Still Photography

  • 3Discover stereo viewer cartridges
  • 3-M Cassette / GO-1 Cartridge (16 mm microfilm cartridge)
  • Agfa Karat film
  • Ben 10 Omnitrix Projector Watch picture discs
  • Calotype
  • Cine Infantil en Relieve JIN stereoview scroll
  • Daguerreotype (1840-1850s) – silver-plated copper
  • Fex Photo Pack Matic (1966 single-use camera)
  • Fuji Fotorama Instant film
  • Fuji Fotorama InstantACE instant film
  • Fuji Fotorama System 800 series instant film
  • Gedescope viewer slides (single or stereo)
  • Disney Mickey Mouse Club Newsreel (6-inch record with accompanying slide strip, 1950s)
  • Minox film cartridge
  • National Plastic Corp toy projector reels
  • Photo Pac camera (1948 single-use camera)
  • Picture Box (1948 single-use camera)
  • Radex Binocular-Scope slides
  • Singer Education Systems projector cartridge
  • Stereockon (Russian version of View-Master)
  • Super Sounds Talking View-Master 2005 – 2009
  • Vistomat reels for handheld stereo viewer
  • Whittaker Micro 16 film cartridge
  • Zimmermans Ludoscope Phenakistoscope disc

Motion Picture

  • 17.5mm film (1898 – 1945)
  • 28 mm film
  • Agfa N8 8mm film Cartridge
  • Bandai Chibikko Movie
  • Bell & Howell Filmosound (35mm filmstrip and tape)
  • Cinetape (a punched magnetic tape to provide synchronised sound to 16mm film)
  • Circe Super 8 cartridge for Mangiafilm projector
  • Edison Home Kinetoscope 22 mm Motion Picture Filmstrip
  • Funnee Movee toy movie viewer 16mm, Irwin Corp.
  • GAF View-Master Automatic Movie Viewer
  • Ideal Pocket Flix
  • Kenner Cassette Movie Viewer
  • Kenner Easy Show film cartridge
  • Mupi Ciao Film Sound Cassette
  • Nizo Rapider 8mm Film Cartridge
  • Normende Colourvision (telecine)
  • Paper prints of films
  • Panacolor Pik-a-Movie (1968 – 1973)
  • Pathe Kok 28mm motion picture film
  • Pathe Patheorama film viewer
  • Phenakistiscope
  • PhonoVue (Magi-Cartridge with film to accompany a jukebox)
  • Pocket Full O’Fun Cartridge
  • Popy KuruKuru Terevi
  • Popy KuruKuru Video
  • RCA SelectaVision / Holotape (telecine)
  • Siemens Movie Cartridge
  • Spin Master Storytime Theater Projector
  • Super 8 silent film cartridge and 200 foot cartridge
  • Super 16
  • Telejet film viewer cartridge
  • Urban Spirograph
  • Videotronic Compact Super 8 Cartridge
  • View-Master Double Vue film cartridge
  • Wards 8mm Film Magazine for Wards Automatic Film Projector