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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Space: 1999

Without doubt the SF show with the funkiest theme ever seen on TV.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for doing that.

After making that claim, I should have provided a link.

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

Is this what South Park was parodying in Go God Go?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't that belt clip in both the wrong location and the wrong way up?

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

IIRC, the screens used 2nd gen Sinclair microvision flat tubes, but the video cable went down a sleeve..