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Museum of Obsolete Media
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A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage. #RetroTech #ComputingHistory […] 🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.world/@obsoletemediauk on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 11d
The Friden Computyper computer of 1967 was marketed as a billing machine and made use of a cartridge with a continuous loop of punched Mylar tape to program it.

The tapes were prepared by a Friden office, to meet the needs of the company running the […]

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Friden Computyper punched tape cartridge with Boekingsprogramma (Booking program). Shows the thumbscrew used to attached the cartridge to the side of the Computyper. Friden Computyper punched tape cartridge with Boekingsprogramma (Booking program). Rear view that shows the continuous loop of tape bunched inside the cartridge. Friden Computyper punched tape cartridge with Boekingsprogramma (Booking program). Detail of punched tape made using hard-wearing Mylar.
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 22d
The Karat film cartridge was reintroduced as the Agfa Rapid cartridge in 1964. This was almost identical, the main difference being a metal tab on the back of the cartridge that helped the camera identify the speed of the film.
Agfa Karat and Rapid film cartridges. The tab on the Rapid cartridge told the camera the film’s speed An unused roll of Agfa Isopan ISS Rapid Pancromatic ASA 100 film (expired January 1980) shown with its original box
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 22d
Agfa introduced their Karat series of cameras in 1936 and with it introduced a new film cartridge system for 35 mm photographic film. Two cartridges were used, with the film being drawn from one cartridge and then being pushed into the empty cartridge. One […]

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Two Agfa Gevaert Karat film cartridges with 35 mm film shown travelling between the two cartridges Two Agfa Gevaert Karat film cartridges, one with 35 mm film showing
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vga256 @vga256.dialup.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27d
discovered this ad for a Panasonic PV-SD4090 in a march 2000 issue of Wired mag

99% of the time i see sony mavica posts for retro digicams, but this one is a real treasure. those LS-120 drives did not really catch on at the time, and it’s a shame because iomega […]

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An ad for a megapixel digital camera with 3x optical zoom. The copy reads: Panasonic introduces the first digital still camera that can capture up to 1500 images on one disk.
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6
The Sharp Magnetic Bubble Memory cartridge was introduced in 1983 for use as removable storage in the Sharp PC-5000 portable computer, in place of a hard disk or internal floppy disks. It offered 128 KB of storage.

This cartridge was kindly donated by my […]

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Front of the Sharp Magnetic Bubble Memory CE-100B cartridge. The cartridge is blue with a white label for writing details of its contents. View of the contacts on the Sharp Magnetic Bubble Memory CE-100B cartridge. The Sharp Magnetic Bubble Memory CE-100B cartridge with its packaging which consists of a small cardboard box. The cartridge is blue with a white label for writing details of its contents.
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2
The Music Screeners series was a short-lived format that offered multimedia content on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. They were launched by Sony in late 1995 with 21 titles - more were planned for 1996 but this doesn't appear to have happened.

Each disk was themed […]

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Music Screeners disc with box. Michael Jackson : Thriller (Epic ESS61118) (1995) on 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk Music Screeners disc with box. Michael Jackson : Thriller (Epic ESS61118) (1995) on 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk Music Screeners disc. Michael Jackson : Thriller (Epic ESS61118) (1995) on 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30
In the 1900s and 1910s there were a number of Chicago-based record labels that operated a type of premium scheme whereby the phonograph itself was inexpensive but the purchaser was locked-in to purchasing discs made for the player through the use of different […]

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Standard Disc Record (1904 – 1920) centre label showing ½-inch spindle hole. The record is Sevilla (Boston No. 10) (5608) Standard Disc Record (10-inch, single-sided) Busy Bee Record (1904 – 1909) centre label showing standard ¼-inch spindle hole plus rectangular cut-out. The record is When The Snow Birds Cross the Valley (Baritone solo – orchestra accompaniment) 5412 (10-inch, single-sided) (n.d.) Aretino Record (1907 - 1914) centre label showing 3-inch spindle hole. The record is Samuel Siegel / Geo. Stehl, Marshall Lufsky, Paul Surth: Sugar Plum / Longing for Home (1910) D577. Harmony Disc Record (1907 – 1916) centre label showing ¾-inch spindle hole. The record is Loch Lomond / O Star of Eve (A312) (10-inch, double-sided) (c. 1907-1912)
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26
@jernej__s if you ever get the chance to find out what brand they are, I'd be interested to learn
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26
Some older automatic washing machines used metal punched cards to control their wash cycles and offer more choice over programmes. The cards were placed in a slot on the machine – a top row of smaller perforations was used to pull the card along and as the […]

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Voss V6LS-V10LS metal washing machine punched cards. Three cards with a yellow one for fancy linen (delicate), a purple card for coloured linen (normally dirty) and a silver card for linen (slightly dirty).
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23
This is a background music cartridge from Planned Equipment Ltd. (PEL). Using an 8-Track cartridge, it offered four 4 hours of mono music by running the tape at half the normal speed and using all eight tracks.

This particular cartridge was kindly donated by […]

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PEL Music background music cartridge. The cartridge is brown and looks exactly like an 8-Track cartridge. This one offer 'Light instrumental' background music and shows the date August 1987. The picture on the label shows an ear with a waveform superimposed. PEL Music background music cartridge. The cartridge is brown and looks exactly like an 8-Track cartridge. This one offer 'Light instrumental' background music and shows the date August 1987.
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19
Busy Bee Records was started in 1904 and was one of a number of Chicago-based labels that operated a type of premium scheme whereby the phonograph itself was inexpensive but the purchaser was locked-in to purchasing discs made for the player.

The Busy Bee […]

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Front view of a Busy Bee Record - When The Snow Birds Cross the Valley (Baritone solo – orchestra accompaniment) 5412 (10-inch, single-sided) (n.d.) Side view of a Busy Bee Record - When The Snow Birds Cross the Valley (Baritone solo – orchestra accompaniment) 5412 (10-inch, single-sided) (n.d.) View of the back of a single-sided Busy Bee Record showing the notice about licensing. The record is 'When The Snow Birds Cross the Valley' (Baritone solo – orchestra accompaniment) 5412 (10-inch, single-sided) (n.d.) Front view of the centre label of a Busy Bee Record showing the centre spindle hold and rectangular cut-out. The record is 'When The Snow Birds Cross the Valley' (Baritone solo – orchestra accompaniment) 5412 (10-inch, single-sided) (n.d.)
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 16
Introduced around the early 1930s, the Movie-Jeckor was a toy projector that used paper rolls and an electric lamp.

The reel contained two rows of images and as a handle on the projector was turned, the strip was advanced and a shutter inside the projector […]

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'Freckles and His Friends' on Movie-Jecktor paper strip showing box with strip partially unwound 'Freckles and His Friends' on Movie-Jecktor paper strip showing start of strip on wooden spool 'Freckles and His Friends' on Movie-Jecktor paper strip showing box with strip partially unwound
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Museum of Obsolete Media @obsoletemediauk.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12
UD-4 was a lesser known quadraphonic LP format introduced by Nippon Columbia (Denon) in 1974. It contained both matrix and discrete quadraphonic systems, but didn't do well commercially with just 30 releases. This is a sampler album from 1974. More information […]

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Front view of the album 'Various Artists: Classic in Beat for UD-4' [Denon 4GX-9005] (1974) Sleeve design of the album 'Various Artists: Classic in Beat for UD-4' [Denon 4GX-9005] (1974) Label detail of the album 'Various Artists: Classic in Beat for UD-4' [Denon 4GX-9005] (1974) Information from the inlay showing a cartoon of someone in the centre of four speakers enjoying different instruments coming from each one.
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