Strategic Media Planning (1989)

This is a hard cover book, with both 5.25 and 3.5 floppies. The 3.5 inch floppy is for the Macintosh computer, and the 5.25 inch version is for the IBM and compatibles.

This package is made to show advertisers how to manage all the data for successful media planning. The software on the floppies contain 4 programs to interact with the data to make publishing goals, budgets, plans and evaluation of results.

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TV Guide Multimedia Crosswords (1996)

This is a multimedia approach to crosswords, you will solve puzzles using video clips, photographs, and sound clues. The game has 200 crosswords directly from the past two decades of TV Guide. Topics include Television, Music, Movies, and Sports.

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AAA IntelliTravel Automotive Club Map Software (1995)

According to the Getting Started sheet:
“IntelliTravel was designed with the leisure traveler in mind.” This software is a easy to use itinerary planner, with many maps, point of interest, restaurants, lodging, campgrounds. You can plan your entire trip.

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Con Ton Y son – McGraw Hill School Interactive (1997)

Con Ton Y Son translates to “With Rhyme and Reason”.

This software was designed for schools to teach Spanish using a computer. It offers children step by step phonics instructions, using interactive multimedia that features creative activities, music, sounds, and illustrations. The children can listen to target syllables to strengthen their phonic skills and improve their reading and word skills.

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Rolling Stones VooDoo Lounge CD ROM (1995)

The Rolling Stones released their first album with Virgin Records called the VooDoo album in 1994. They have released about 20 albums at this point. VooDoo Lounge was their first album without Bassist Bill Wyman. Their last album Steel Wheels was released 5 years earlier.

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ATI FireMV 2200 Multi View Graphics Accelerator (2006)

Graphics card designed for professional use. This card is compatible with DirectX 9.0. The GPU made using the 110nm process, and has 107 million transistors. There is 128MB DDR memory, 4 pixel shaders, 2 vortex shaders, 4 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs, so this is in no way a good gaming video card.

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3-D Ultra – Lionel Train Town Deluxe (2000)

This game takes the model train set to another level. You can change the location to one of 10 crazy places such as the north pole, Eiffel Tower, the big city, desert, giant playroom, backyard, kitchen, basement, and even another planet. You can also create your own world.

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Webster Wire Recorder Model 80-1 (1947)

The main form of audio reproduction at the time was reel to reel recorders which came out in the 1940s.
Wire recorders use magnetized steel wire to record and playback sounds such as music or voices.
Webster Chicago was a leading company producing both reel to reel recorders and wire recorders, which were both used in the 1940s and 1950s. Metal oxide tape replaced the steel wire recorders in the early 1950s.

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