Wanted

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

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

  • Organette spool
  • Book music (used in mechanical organs)
  • Early Berliner disc
  • Edison brown wax cylinder
  • Royal Purple Amberol cylinder
  • Pink Lambert cylinder
  • Concert cylinders
  • 12 inch long-play variant of Edison Disc
  • Vitaphone (motion picture sound system transcription disc)
  • General Electric Play-Talk
  • Pre-recorded RCA Sound Tape Cartridge
  • IBM Magnabelt (4-inch size)
  • Orrtronics Auto-Mate
  • Aristocart
  • Marathon cartridge
  • RCA MI-12877
  • Peirce Model 360
  • Loewe Optaphon
  • Vity cassette
  • Orrtronic Tapette
  • 8-track professional
  • Grundig DeJ614
  • 16 rpm record (10-inch or 7-inch only)
  • Gruvi
  • Americom Pocketdisc
  • Memovox disc
  • Echoplex tape cartridge
  • Dynaco (DY) quadraphonic record
  • UD-4 / UMX / BMX quadraphonic records
  • Filmon Sound Belts
  • Telefunken Magnetic Disc
  • Hipac tape
  • Leadsinger Music Karaoke Music Cartridge
  • Aluminium record master
  • Victor/JVC AHD disc (audio version of VHD)
  • One-sided single (CBS 1982)
  • American Girl Music Cartridge
  • RCA Red Seal 78rpm record on red vinyl
  • DIN/AEG hub open reel tape
  • Akai MK20J tape cassette
  • Zettler ‘Cassette N 64’ Probably from an Alibicord answering machine?
  • Telefunken “Magnetofix” Text message cassette from a Telefunken T106/T107 answering machine
  • Cards for Sony one-station Clip radio

Video

  • 1-inch IVC
  • 1-inch Type A
  • 1-inch Philips video tape (for machines such as the EL3400)
  • Akai ¼-inch tape on 10.5-inch reel for VT700
  • Pre-recorded S-VHS
  • AniMini DVD
  • M
  • Philips D6
  • DVCPRO (S, M and XL sizes)
  • DVCPRO50 (S size, M and XL sizes)
  • DVCPRO HD (S size, M and XL sizes)
  • MUSE HI-Vision LaserDisc
  • Super Video CD (SVCD)
  • Sony AXS card
  • Panasonic P2 card
  • Sony SR Memory
  • Uni-Hi HDVS videotape

Disk / Disc

  • Wang Disk Pack
  • IBM Demidiskette 4-inch
  • Mitsumi Quick Disc
  • Sony 12-inch Magneto-optical disc / TrueWORM
  • SyQuest 5 MB / 10 MB / 15 MB / 25 MB / 38 MB disks
  • SyQuest Quest disk (4.7 GB)
  • HD-DVD-RW
  • Imation Odyssey
  • VMedia
  • Bootable business card
  • SSD drive
  • Gold archival DVD-R
  • CD-MO
  • Audavi MediaPac / SecurePac / HardTape cartridges
  • Avatar Shark
  • Blu-Ray cartridge
  • Optical Disk Archive (ODA)
  • SVOD Disk cartridge
  • Blu-Ray Magazine Cartridge
  • Sony WDM-6DLO
  • Sony WDM-6DAO
  • Recordable Laser Videodisc (RLV)
  • CBHD
  • HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc)
  • Dragon Ball Z CD Picture Card

Tape

  • UNISERVO tape
  • IBM 7-track tape
  • Megatape MDC 500 Data Cartridge
  • Ampex DST (Data Storage Technology)
  • LINC tape
  • Pereos
  • StorageTek SD-3 Redwood
  • DEC TU60 data cassette

ROM Cartridges and Cards

  • AFP M1000/MP1000
  • Bandai Super Vision 8000
  • VTech CreatiVision
  • Nichibutsu My Vision
  • Entex Adventure Vision
  • Exidy Sorcerer
  • Casio PV-1000
  • Funtech Super A’Can
  • Neo Geo memory card
  • Coleco Adam cartridge
  • Neo Geo X game card
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Yamaha Electone music and ROM card
  • Bandai Datach for the Famicom
  • Bandai Sufami Turbo for the Super Famicom

Solid State Media

  • JEIDA
  • XQD card
  • SanDisk 1GB Ultra II SD plus USB
  • CFast (2009)
  • SmartDisk FlashPath adaptor for SmartMedia
  • Memory cards for synthesisers such as the Roland M-512E
  • Removable bubble memory cartridge
  • C-Map C-Card
  • Navionics Classic NavChart Card
  • Eye-Fi card
  • Mitsubishi MELSEC Q2 MEM Flash Memory Card
  • Mitsubishi MELSEC Q2 MEM SRAM Memory Card
  • Mitsubishi MELSEC Q2 MEM ATA Flash Memory Card
  • 60 pins SRAM card
  • RedMag SSD
  • SanDisk miniSDHC memory card

Other

  • Cassette tape that mimics professional open reel (TEAC CRC)
  • Punched tape used with telegraphs
  • Overhead projector transparency sets
  • Library catalogue cards
  • IBM 96 column punched cards for System/3 line (1960s)
  • IBM MagCards (1969, used in IBM word-processors)
  • Canon optical card
  • HP Stat Pac
  • Laser Card
  • Ricoh Synchrofax / 3M Sound Page

Photography

  • Kodak 828 film
  • Super Sounds Talking View-Master 2005 – 2009
  • Stereockon (Russian version of View-Master)
  • Stereo Realist slides
  • Daguerreotype (1840-1850s) – silver-plated copper
  • Calotype
  • Agfa Karat film

Motion Picture

  • Kinora reel
  • 28mm film
  • Super 16
  • Fairchild Moviepak Seventy Cartridges
  • Paper prints of films
  • Bell & Howell Filmosound
  • Cinetape
  • PhonoVue