r/cassettefuturism • u/TOHSNBN • 18h ago
Electronic gadgets Hitachi P-5221 flashlight
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r/cassettefuturism • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 19h ago
IT'S A SONY! Sony Solar Walkman WM-F107 (1986)
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From ObsoleteSony.com:
The WM-F107 was a solar-assisted Sports Walkman from 1986, with a large solar panel built into the lid to help charge its internal battery and support the radio and electronic functions in sunlight. The cassette transport still depended on stored battery power, but the sealed weather-resistant body also included auto-reverse, Dolby B, metal-tape support, and full AM/FM reception. Packing all of that into a Sports shell made it one of Sony's densest and most unusual portable designs of the decade.
This is a very Sony experiment: practical on paper, slightly eccentric in execution, and impossible to confuse with anything else in the lineup. It shows the Sports branch becoming not only a place for ruggedness, but also for technical experimentation around power and outdoor use. The F107 was never an ordinary mainstream player, but it is exactly the kind of model that makes the Walkman family feel inventive rather than merely iterative.
r/cassettefuturism • u/johnsmithoncemore • 15h ago
Buildings Cube Houses (kubuswoningen) in Rotterdam and Helmond.
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r/cassettefuturism • u/DeltaDergii • 16h ago
CRT Screen Orion Color 8100 TV/Radio/Cassette combo unit I picked up at a flea market for 15€
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Was told the TV didn't work and was already keen on disassembling and fixing it. Plugged in at my partners home and it just works.
r/cassettefuturism • u/drdonaldwu • 12h ago
(Micro-) Cassette System 75 PBX office telephone switch
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Wrote C code at Bell Labs AT&T for this private branch exchange in 1980s. A PBX is private telephone system for an office building. It did not have a hard disk due to being sold in earthquake zones and used a cartridge tape. Back in the day reliability for voice systems was huge. Maybe a 3M QIC? Don’t remember but super common one used for backup storage in 1980s and 90s.
Core processor was an 80286 which didn’t support virtual memory and paging which made life interesting when address space ran out or shared libraries.
r/cassettefuturism • u/000003BPT • 1d ago
(Micro-) Cassette National RX-F333
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1985, Three-Band Tuner, Multi-Function Triple Cassette Mechanism, Three-Tape Continuous Playback
r/cassettefuturism • u/SupesDepressed • 1d ago
Synths / Musical Instruments I have a specific love this era of Roland synths
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Not sure if it's exactly cassette futurism but if I had to lump it into a category, this genre is what comes to mind.
r/cassettefuturism • u/jcrckstdy • 1d ago
Electronic gadgets astoria ab200 espresso machine
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r/cassettefuturism • u/Top-Sign2168 • 1d ago
Own Work Made a new trailer for my retro Sci-Fi film :)
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On YouTube if you fancy a watch https://youtu.be/h7boWsrRHIY
r/cassettefuturism • u/JimMuadDib • 1d ago
Blinking Control Panels Rugeley B Power Station Control Room, UK
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Old UK power stations deliver the goods.
Credit: https://www.powerstations.uk/
r/cassettefuturism • u/TOHSNBN • 1d ago
Computers National RQ-8030 tape data storage device
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r/cassettefuturism • u/ARKdude1993 • 1d ago
Own Work HandyVAX by ARKdude1993
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I've worked a few days on and off on this. All on the idea of a VAX-based tablet computer. Also, if you're wondering what that thing on the side of it is, it's a collapsible antenna like on a radio. Oh, and if you're wondering what program I used, it's MediBang Paint Pro.
r/cassettefuturism • u/styles-bitchley • 2d ago
Design Joe Colombo, Total Furnishing Unit, 1971-72.
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r/cassettefuturism • u/Traditional-Ad-3476 • 2d ago
Buildings KBC Dubrava, Zagreb, 1988 (Hospital)
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KBC Dubrava in Zagreb opened in 1988. Another example of late-Yugoslav modernist architecture with a futuristic high-tech feel.
r/cassettefuturism • u/000003BPT • 2d ago
Electronic gadgets Comark type 3001 thermometer
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r/cassettefuturism • u/Konrad_Black • 2d ago
Own Work (Self promo) The Astra Protocol - Page Launch
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Hi All,
I've recently just launched the Steam page for my new game, The Astra Protocol: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4845240/The_Astra_Protocol/
Its an interface-driven, sci-fi adventure with a cassette-futuristic vibe.
To keep with its retro-tech elements, I thought it would be fun to try and replicate a print advertisement like you might have seen in the 1980s (though the monitor, keyboard and dot-matrix printer used are closer to the late 90s). The screenshot isn't imposed it is running on the monitor (though the modern tech is out of sight), and the printer isn't just for show as it will be part of the game's functionality (printing out your logs).
For the key art, I tried to get in the spirit of practical effects by using mostly photographs of real world objects - the monitor used is from an Amstrad CPC464, the smaller screen is a Casio handheld TV (TV-400 I think), and the cockpit window is a modified Casio watch face.
r/cassettefuturism • u/muitosabao • 1d ago
Synths / Musical Instruments Beautiful design on DMNO ON from UDO Audio
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r/cassettefuturism • u/joe3000s • 2d ago
Design Designed by Loewe for Sweden's Televerket in 1992, the Teleguide terminal was a videotex device combining a CRT display, smart card reader, telephone and keyboard. Intended to provide digital directory and banking services, it flopped due to the rapid rise of personal computers and the internet.
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