Akai GX-600DB 4 track reel to reel.

Controls for the Qube cable TV system

Links: WIkipedia article, fan site

The Sound of Walkman Silence

No audio, just 11 Walkman playing silence at full volume so all you can hear is the noise floor.

When you can read this message your recorder heads are clean

Ultimate BusinessFunk (2 Hour Presentation)

The complete 10 year odyssey (2006–2016). Contains slightly edited versions of BusinessFunk 1, 2, 3 and BusinessFunk Extra (bonus episode made for the Near Mint show on Resonance FM). Compiled from various library LPs from eBay, Discogs, record fairs, junk shops and countless heroic blogspot archivists of yore.

EBS Attack Warning

Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) pre-recorded Attack Warning message (repeated twice here, second at higher volume) sourced from the National Archives, Record Group 311. Audio file title as issued by NARA: 311-005. This tape was likely produced during the LBJ or Nixon administrations, though we do not know the exact year.

Ebony Steel Band, "Tour de France" (Kraftwerk cover)

Full album Pan-Machine: YouTube, Spotify

“Opening Narration (Western Theme),” narrated by Thurl Ravenscroft, from the 1958 Disneyland Records album Songs of the National Parks

Full album:

Adventures of Excellence - 15 projectors

Here's a 15 projector slideshow that's 99% graphic art and 1% photos. It has a mind-bending narration, designed to encourage the audience to do - something (probably sell more of whatever they sell). To me this is as nice an example of a graphic-art-rich slide module as you'll find anywhere. This was produced by Wilden Enterprises in 1985 and kept safe over the years by Paul Vershbow.

1978 DiscoVision "US DEMO" laserdisc

This was the very first publicly-available demonstration laserdisc (there had been a few for prototype display uses only before this.) It shows a bit on how the system worked and how the first discs were made- it turned out that for optimal quality, much cleaner conditions than what's shown here were needed.

Micheal Simpson ‘85

1986 Timex Watch "The Illusion" TV Commercial