Prometheus
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Ok, this is a weird one, even by my standards, but we're all geeks here, and if there's anyone who can help me with this, it's surely you guys! 
To cut a long story short, I'm looking for a VERY specific type of optical disk, as part of a somewhat obscure joke gift for someone I know who likes Mission: Impossible.
In trying to find something suitable, I studied the first of the Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible movies, and was able to identify what type of disk the main plot MacGuffin, "the NOC List" is, and figured that this would be perfect. The specific disk is an Olympus-brand 640MB Magneto Optical Disk, housed in a clear casing (white casings are more common for Magneto Optical Disks, from my research, but this particular size from this particular brand has a transparent case). It looks like the picture below;
The trouble is, I had no idea that it would be so difficult to find! I have looked everywhere for one of these, and my only hit was an eBay auction where a chap was selling a Magneto Optical drive with two of these particular disks, but they wouldn't sell one of them to me separately. So, I ask you, does anyone here know where I might find one of these, please? All pointers appreciated!
Thanks!
To cut a long story short, I'm looking for a VERY specific type of optical disk, as part of a somewhat obscure joke gift for someone I know who likes Mission: Impossible.
In trying to find something suitable, I studied the first of the Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible movies, and was able to identify what type of disk the main plot MacGuffin, "the NOC List" is, and figured that this would be perfect. The specific disk is an Olympus-brand 640MB Magneto Optical Disk, housed in a clear casing (white casings are more common for Magneto Optical Disks, from my research, but this particular size from this particular brand has a transparent case). It looks like the picture below;

The trouble is, I had no idea that it would be so difficult to find! I have looked everywhere for one of these, and my only hit was an eBay auction where a chap was selling a Magneto Optical drive with two of these particular disks, but they wouldn't sell one of them to me separately. So, I ask you, does anyone here know where I might find one of these, please? All pointers appreciated!
Thanks!
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