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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: Értékmentés - egyre keskenyebb szalagon (Hungarian) / Preserving value - on ever narrower tapes

* Note that the picture is recent but the equipment is form 70s / 80s

The last paragraph translated with DeepL:

In the picture is the archive recorder, with the following equipment (from left to right): in the corner an AMPEX VPR2 1-inch player, then a SONY BVH 2000 PS, in the rack a SONY BVW 55 Beta SP, below it a Digi Beta version, on top of the monitor on the right the smallest but newest piece is the SONY PDW 1500 recorder, and the row is completed by another 1-inch player, the SONY BVH 3100 PS. On the table in the middle are the controls and editing tools for the 1-inch machines.

Found on the Aesthetics Wiki's page for Cassette Futurism and identified as Hungarian TV technology through "Cassette Futurism": salvare gli anni Ottanta dai fanboy nostalgici 1/3 (Italian).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The LCD monitor really threw me for a few seconds before realising this wasn’t a photo from the 70s / 80s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Added a note to clarify :P.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I think I just need my morning coffee haha.

[–] gripworks 2 points 1 year ago

I remember those Sony 1" machines. We used to use a pair of them to do a delay for a sports call in show. Record on one, then through the air to playback on the other. The distance between the machines determined the length of the delay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting seeing the Windows 7 logo in the mix. Must've been some hardware added later like the LCD screen. Or maybe it's a joke sticker, little hard to tell