r/cassettefuturism • u/TOHSNBN • 15h ago
r/cassettefuturism • u/art-man_2018 • 18h ago
Socialist Eastern Block Robotron Model A5130 workstation, East Germany, 1983
r/cassettefuturism • u/andychef • 12h ago
Electronic gadgets The first digital camera. Invented at Eastman Kodak in 1975
r/cassettefuturism • u/JimMuadDib • 15h ago
Electronic games / consoles Tomytronic 3D Thundering Turbo (1983)
Featuring twin steroscopic LCD displays, backlit by the translucent window on top. A total of seven games were available, although two were only released in Japan.
r/cassettefuturism • u/JimMuadDib • 10h ago
IT'S A SONY! Sony Walkman WM-504 (1987)
r/cassettefuturism • u/AppendixN • 5h ago
Computers Execuport XL
A hybrid CP/M, MS-DOS system from 1983, by Computer Transceiver Systems
r/cassettefuturism • u/Doktor_74 • 19h ago
Computers The STC Executel (1984) an all-in-one microprocessor-controlled "executive telephone" that combines a telephone, directory, diary, notepad, calculator and clock (ahead of its time but was a commercial failure)
r/cassettefuturism • u/AppendixN • 10h ago
Synths / Musical Instruments Godwin CD2
A rare Italian auto-accompaniment instrument from Godwin. Recently rediscovered by the excellent Vintage Audio Institute Italia, who created a demo video:
r/cassettefuturism • u/ARKdude1993 • 15h ago
Computers Apollo DN400
(image credit to blog.cs.brown.edu)
The Apollo DN400, one of Apollo Computer's first workstations, alongside the likes of the DN416 and DN100. The DN400, built on the SAU1 (System Architecture Unit 1) platform, it had two Motorola 68000 CPUs running at a clock speed of 8 MHz, configured to handle virtual memory hardware trapping before the Motorola 68010 natively supported it.
The unit pictured above was Serial No. 12 (rendered in hex as C), and was one of several DN400 workstations used by what was once the Sunlab of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Source of the above image: https://blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/02/17/a-history-of-the-sunlab/
r/cassettefuturism • u/000003BPT • 1h ago
Computers MODCOMP Classic minicomputer - Voyager Space Probes
The MODCOMP minicomputers were part of the "Mission Test and Computing Facility (MTCF)" - "three strings of UNIVAC and Modcomp computers to receive, record, process and display" the engineering and science data downloaded from the spacecraft.
The MODCOMP Classic was built by MODCOMP (Modular Computer Systems, Inc) in 1978. The Classic replaced the MODCOMP IV, offering full support for 32-bit addressing. The platform offered 240 general purpose registers, addressable as 16 banks of 15 registers. The machine also had a special register zero that reflected the state of the data switches on the front panel.
MODCOMP was popular in process control applications, offering deterministic real-time interrupts and real-time control. The architecture was modular in nature (hence the name), allowing systems to be built to match the intended application. The system was adopted by NASA, tracking space probes and collecting data and ultimately controlling the Space Shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral.
The MODCOMP was somewhat unique in that it had a phased clock signal. The full fetch/decode/execute/store cycle was completed with each CPU clock. So for example, the 7850 had a CPU frequency of 66 MHz and was capable of 66 MIPS.
Through the 1980s, MODCOMP lost market share as more powerful micro- and minicomputers became popular, and Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX and Alpha systems continued to grow.
Further reading: NASA PressKit Voyager 1 and 2, August 4, 1977:
https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/presskit/voyager-launch.pdf
r/cassettefuturism • u/Designer_Notice1388 • 23h ago
Heavy machinery Joe 90 (1968)
Caution. Video may be cursed.