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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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Released in 1984 this stereo radio cassette recorder has speakers which are moveable, removable and act as it's battery compartments.

Pic is a screenshot of a Youtube video by the great Techmoan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqc9akDIE_g

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

AKAI were wizards back then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

...my wife had a walkman which folded down to the size of a cassette case...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I had a small bookshelf cassette/CD stereo base by them. The sound was AKAI.