Mighty Tiny Records (1967)
Mighty Tiny Records were introduced in 1967 by Ohio Arts, for what was described at the time as ‘the world’s smallest record player’. It was essentially a battery-powered portable toy record player for...
View ArticleOrganette cardboard disc (late 1870s – 1920s)
The organette was a family of mechanical reed instruments, first introduced in the late 1870s. They were hand-cranked, and designed for tabletop use in the home. There were a variety of manufacturers,...
View ArticleLaserDisc with teletext (1981 – late 1990s)
Teletext was a means of displaying text and basic graphics on a television that had the ability to decode the information. Invented in the early 1970s, the first major broadcaster to offer a broadcast...
View ArticleFederal Perma Disk (1940s)
Federal Perma Disk (note the strange spelling of ‘disk’) was a brand of lacquer disc (sometimes known as an acetate or instantaneous disc) that was produced in the US by the Federal Recorder Co. Inc....
View ArticleCarnival Record Player (mid 1960 – mid 1970s)
The Carnival Record Player was a battery powered record player for children, with a metal needle and diaphragm speaker. The player had an auto shut-off mechanism when the record finished playing, and...
View ArticleMini DVD-RAM (2000 – late 2000s)
DVD-RAM (DVD Random Access Memory) was an optical disk format used in computers, set-top box video recorders and camcorders, and was first introduced in 1998. DVD-RAM was more commonly available as a...
View ArticleSNK Neo Geo CD / CDZ (1994 – 1999)
The Neo Geo CD was released in 1994 and was the second home video game console released by SNK after the Neo Geo AES. The hardware for the Neo Geo CD was very similar as that of both the AES and the...
View ArticleAretino Record (1907 – 1914)
Aretino Records were 10-inch (or sometimes 12-inch) 78 rpm shellac records with an unusually large centre hole of three-inch diameter. This was the largest spindle-hole of any record and meant the...
View ArticleDurium Junior (1932 – 1933)
Durium Junior was a flexible single-sided 4-inch phonograph disc made from Durium (a synthetic brown resin invented in the US in 1929) with a cardboard backing. These were introduced in 1931 by the...
View ArticleISI 525 WC Optical Storage System (1985 – late 1980s)
Around 1985, ISI (Information Storage Inc.) introduced their 525 WC Optical Storage System. This was one of a number of magneto-optical disc storage formats introduced in the mid-1980s, and allowed...
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