Cassette Futurism

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Welcome to Cassette Futurism Lemmy and Mbin Community.

A place to share and discuss Cassette Futurism: media where the technology closely matches the computers and technology of the 70s and 80s.

Whether it's bright colors and geometric shapes, the tendency towards stark plainness, or the the lack of powerful computers and cell phones, Cassette Futurism includes: Cassettes, ROM chips, CRT displays, computers reminiscent of microcomputers like the Commodore 64, freestanding hi-fi systems, small LCD displays, and other analog technologies.

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Source: prokhorVLG — RYUJIN finds a floppy disk containing the...

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RYUJIN finds a floppy disk containing the Schafer’s 2093 Fall and Winter catalog.

Pact robots are not designed to read most disk formats originating in the West.

It goes beyond not being able to understand a language. The closest analogy would be not even having ears to hear it spoken.

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Oldest source I could find: 1985 Nissan CUE-X - Concepts

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Source with more photos: MAX HEADROOM (1987 - 1988) - Max Headroom's (Matt Frewer) Electronic Gadgets and Tools - Current price: $550

Disc holder with eighteen 3 ½” floppy disks

Description

A collection of Max Headroom's (Matt Frewer) electronic gadgets and tools from the cult favorite TV series Max Headroom. The grouping of electronic gadgets and tools includes a stripe of rainbow striped cables, an Archer video stabilizer/RF Modulator, a cassette tape recorder shaped like a VHS tape, a blue and black vinyl disc holder with eighteen 3 ½” floppy disks, a ‘Network 23’ access key and a motherboard and touch panel on outside, a molded door panel with peephole and keypads, a practical padlock with a number pad and working red light on side, and a practical saw-like hand held device with a light-up panel and rotating blade that spins when the red button is depressed and is housed in a red leather and metal case with belt loop. The collection is in very good, production-used condition overall, with the lock and spinning blade devices still functional.

Max Headroom (Matt Frewer) hosts his own talk show, throughout which he uses various gadgets in his capacity as ‘the world's first computer-generated TV host’.

Dimensions: (Largest) 12” x 7” x 2” (30 cm x 17 cm x 5 cm); (Smallest) 3 ½” x 3 ½” (9 cm x 9 cm)

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Source: Shadowlands Battle Station (by Alexandrin Damascan - ArtStation)

I wanted to celebrate the release of the expansion with a drawing so I won’t feel guilty about not touching the pencil for a while. So here it goes folks, see you in Shadowlands 🤖beep bop. Scroll down for a quick timelapse. Everything done in Procreate 5x
More stuff: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrinul/

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Source: weird walkman (by Leonardo Mazzoli - ArtStation)

Video link

Description

QUIET personal project prop study + random old computer having a bad day. Tinkering with the small animations and working on the audio design was a fun side project.
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QUIET, because life is just too short

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Source: Juli Phone telephone answering machine, about 1970 | Science Museum Group Collection

Closer look

Juli phone with tapes and remote control

Telephone answering machines did not become widespread until the 1960s. At that time they were quite bulky machines and usually to be found only in offices. The Juli Phone, made in Japan in about 1970, is typical in its size and is solidly constructed. A small ‘activator transmitter’ was included which could be carried around by the owner and used to play over incoming messages on a telephone remote from the machine, for example at the owner’s home.


EDIT: I suspect the metallic piece would work similar to the ANSAFONE. See this this video from THIS MUSEUM IS (NOT) OBSOLETE (link to working demo at 14:43):

But intead of lifting the phone, it would just press/unpress the button.

Something like this

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Source: — More PLACEHOLDER art. Dupa Genetics tour boy. I...

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More PLACEHOLDER art. Dupa Genetics tour boy.

I needed something to allow you to fast travel and offer some other features like play cassettes you find in game. I basically took the idea from the Louvre which uses Nintendos for digital tours, which is pretty neat.

Bonus points if you know the console I’m using as placeholder art here. I remember look at my brothers old Hyper magazines and wanting it bad.

Getting real close to finishing constructing all the puzzles for the second half of the game. Then to the object interactions/dialogue, then insane art crunch, then voice acting :D Then polish the shit out of it.

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Source: Heat tracker Device by sketchformscratch

90's vibes design aesthetics Heat tracker device.

Made for a Concept Art test base on a post-apocalyptic design setting video game.

Color Variation and Process : [ broken link ]

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Source: Muguang Vision Line by prokhorvlg

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Almost overnight, their advertisements were everywhere, but no one remembered putting them onto the walls. When broken down, the sad creaking plastic of their inexpensive machines revealed strange fractal circuits indicative of no known technological origin.

The machines were a range of typical business devices. Mainframes and consoles used to control the creation, flow, and consumption of information. They were cheap and efficient, but some users reported the distinct sensation of being observed.

Automatics normally carry material in a most efficient pattern for weight distribution and stability, but not when hauling these machines. They twisted and contorted, keeping the device aligned relative to distant points in space, as if part of a greater pattern.

Just as quickly, the machines were gone. An inquiry into the company was made, but nothing would be found. Not even an office or a name, as if the machines vanished back into the walls once they finished their unknowable task.

Digital memories of automatics held no memory of the event. Audiovisual tape recordings of the machines would melt on playback. All that remained in the end was human memory, and with time, even that would be gone.

NBT Desk Manager
E-FAS Desktop Machine
B-NAS Stacked Portable Machine
E-NT Focused Monitor
P-DI5 Personal Assistant
MS Human Hand Peripheral

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Source: A M A T E U R I S M ™ on Tumblr

Desiged by Italdesign: Project: Orbit - 1986 - Italdesign
Thanks to @HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net for the reference.

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Source with more info: Radiomuseum - Juno MK-29 R-Player Budapesti Rádiótechnikai Gyár BRG, build

Dimensions (WHD)
280 x 75 x 240 mm / 11 x 3 x 9.4 inch

Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
3.1 kg / 6 lb 13.3 oz (6.828 lb)

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Source: Borderlands ECHO Recorder by Press-X-Props

As usual, you can follow my projects on Instagram: @pressxprops

And please check out my YouTube cuz I put almost as much effort into my videos on my props as I do my props: www.youtube.com/pressxprops

Thanks for looking!

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Source: A laser rifle by Fernand0FC

An old laser rifle. worn by use and time

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Source: Object, Telex Corporation, Telex cassette player

Description

Historical information

A talking book player that allowed the user to change the tone and speed of cassettes played in it. Designed to handle both 4 track and 2 track cassettes, these players were the perfect solution to having both commercial (2 track) and recordings for the blind (4 track) materials without needing separate players. Tonal changes in particular were sometimes required by older listeners, as aging reduces the ability to distinguish high pitch sounds. Speed variability also allowed those who read faster to increase narration, and to slow down reading patterns for listeners with acquired brain injury or other conditions that affected cognitive processing of language.

Physical description

Blue plastic rectangular talking book player with buttons for navigational controls and 5 buttons.

Seen on Buttons & Knobs — Telex Corporation C1 // Audio Book Player with...

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Source: Photo by Sandstein - File:Epson HX-20 in case - MfK Bern.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia: Epson HX-20

The Epson HX-20 (also known as the HC-20) was the first "true" laptop computer. It was invented in July 1980 by Yukio Yokozawa, who worked for Suwa Seikosha, a branch of Japanese company Seiko (now Seiko Epson), receiving a patent for the invention.

Seen on Functional object - Object, Epson, Epson portable computer, 1980-1989

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Source with more cyberdecks: Retro Cyberdecks on Behance

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Octane version

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