Source: PYE Image Orthicon Camera Control Unit | Set: Control Freak | Sameli Kujala (Flickr).

Full Flickr album: Control Freak.

Some info about Pye Mark III television camera at Science Museum Group Collection:

(...) Mk III Camera Chain made by Pye in England, c. 1955. Image orthicon camera type 2028, used by Associated TeleVision (ATV). Moulded cream plastic letters 'ATV' attached to side of camera.

The Pye Mk III Camera was the first Pye camera to be designed to use the 3-inch Image Orthicon camera pickup tube. Designed in 1951, the first production models became available in 1952 and by the following year increasing numbers were being sold to broadcasters around the world.

(...)

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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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Source: prokhorVLG — A Datanet advertisement for a specialty...

 
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Source: Raleigh Vektar Appreciation Society (Facebook)

Bike seen on 1985 Raleigh Vektar (r/RetroFuturism)

Some info from The Raleigh Vektar | The Bike Comes First:

The Vektar, the worlds first computer bike, was launched in 1985 long before we had health and safety laws. Equipped with ‘micro chip technology’ the rider could see how fast they were going, how far they had gone and how long they had been riding for at the touch of a button. The head’s down display ensured that you would ride into the back of your mate or a kerb as you fiddled with the control panel.

If that wasn’t enough you could listen to the radio on one of the three AM preset stations either while riding the bike or parked up hanging out with their pals. Later models came with a MW tuner giving even less crappy sound quality.

The main feature though was the advanced warning and alarm system. Once you had chosen one of the eight sounds from the ‘revolutionary sound generator’ on the top tube mounted control panel, you could use the handlebar mounted controller to terrorise old ladies as you rallied around the housing estate.

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Source: Tictac – Musée du Minitel

Some info (French) from Collection Minitel

The CNET rather pushes its investigations towards the coupling of telephone and television, developing, in 1974, the TIC-TAC system (Integrated Terminal Including Television and Keyboard Call). But TIC-TAC is only a prefiguration. The culmination of the work, a veritable marriage of computers and the telephone, will take the name of Interactive Videotex.

via [Minitel] ABCD… - Page 29 - forum.system-cfg.com

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4807979

Source: AKAT-1 Analogue Computer (by Bethany Fox - ArtStation):

An iconic Polish analog computer from the 60s made for my friends' awesome FMP set in a dystopian fascist museum
Authored at 4k. Has a clear screen that isn't shown in Painter since it displays opaque.

The post only says "Reference picture", but I think it's the one at "Muzeum Techniki" in Warsaw, Poland:
https://flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2231616877/in/album-72157603823734926/

More pictures from the museum on Marcin Wichary's Flickr album:
https://flickr.com/photos/mwichary/sets/72157603823734926/

Some info from Jacek Karpiński's Wikipedia:

The breakthrough achievement of Karpiński's career was the construction of AKAT-1 in 1959 in co-operation with engineer Janusz Tomaszewski. AKAT-1 was a pioneering work – the world's first differential equations analyzer based on transistors. Karpiński built the device during his spell at the Polish Academy of Science's Institute of Automatics, where he found employment after the success of AAH. The aim of AKAT-1 was to simulate various complex dynamic processes like heat transfer or a shock absorber's mechanics. The innovativeness of the device was acknowledged by historians of computer science – e.g. Maciej Sysło claims it has to be conceded that Karpiński's effort preceded any other similar device. The construction was also lauded for its aesthetical merits – the panel designed by leading Polish artists – Emil Cieślar, Olgierd Rutkowski, Stanisław Siemek and Andrzej Wróblewski had been considered to 'innovatively merge all functions in a congruent and attractive form that anticipated the future trends'. The machine has been domestically welcomed warmly, having been covered by a host of country-wide media, including national television TVP1 and Polish Film Chronicle.

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Source with more props: Various device designs (by Max Marharit - ArtStation):

Was designing random props in my spare time, had a lot of fun making those to get deeper in product\prop design

• Drone controller
• Portable disc player with speakers
• Portable cassette player
• Portable game console ( Screen pixel art by Francesca De Vivo )

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/mmi

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Higher resolution (3840x2160)

Source with more images: Video game night. (by Vadim Shishkin - ArtStation):

Hi everyone! I want to present to you my new scene. It's a teenage room in the 80s style. First I only planned to make a computer model but I was too obsessed with searching references on Pinterest that in the end there was a small scene. About the brand of the computer, it was collected from different pictures that I loved.)) I hope you like it.

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/vama6

RSS Feed: https://vama6.artstation.com/rss

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Source: Buttons & Knobs — Nagra IV-S // Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder...

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Source: prokhorVLG — Print ad for the world's first teledex, a portable...

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Source: VN Commodore I.P Proposal (Glen.H, flickr)

A cheaper simpler version was produced.

The version produced (source: VN Commodore I.P Proposal (Glen.H, flickr))

Found via cassette futurism collection (Samuel, Pinterest)

I think this is the model: [Holden Commodore (VN) (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Commodore_(VN))

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Source: ‘Science Fiction Monthly’ Cover Gallery, 1974 – 1976

Artist ISFDB*: Tony Roberts: Summary Bibliography

* Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Brought up (on reddit) by u/ihahp.

More info: Wikipedia PXL2000

1987 Video ad from reddit comment.

Picture found on Cámara Pixelvision (IDIS) [Spanish] with another picture.

High resolution version found via TinEye.

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The plant was opened on the 80s, but the picture is probably a recent one.

Source: The untold story of the architect who turned Spain’s modernist power plants into art

Image caption:

Aboño thermal power plant, Aboño valley between the municipalities of Gijón and Carreño, opened 1980, owned by EDP. Photography: Luis Asín

From the article:

Deep in the Cantabrian Mountains, some 150 kilometres away from his hometown Oviedo in northern Spain, a young Joaquín Vaquero Palacios (1900-1998) used to travel around on horseback with his father, one of the founders of the Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico company (now part of the EDP group). (...)

Found via cassette futurism collection (Samuel, Pinterest)

Spanish Wikipedia: Joaquín Vaquero Palacios

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More info:

• An image from the original digital camera on the prototype digital playback system, accodirg to NYTimes.
• Stephen Sasson of Eastman Kodak Invents the Digital Camera : History of Information
• Wikipedia: Steven Sasson - First self-contained digital camera
• Kodak’s First Digital Moment (Lens blog - NYTimes - WebArchive)

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Hope this is okay to post here. Seems applicable to me!

Source with more (not-so-cassette-futuristic) images: Traveller Art by Arne Niklas Jansson (AndroidArts)

Traveller is an old science-fiction roleplaying game released soon after D&D (...). Initially it was more of a generic rule system without much in the way of illustrations, but over the years a vast fleshed outsetting was developed for it, and the lore now covers multiple time periods which means you'll have to pick a time period to play, weighing what bits you like or feel were a lore mistake.

(...)

Traveller Communicator based on the one in the Grand Census supplement. Unsure what the second screen is. Maybe readable monochrome, for displaying settings and such. Or a persistent e-paper display? Slide-out top screen could be used for Augmented Reality HUD stuff as it's clear. The device is probably about the size of the original Game Boy. Nowadays we wouldn't design a clunky device like this, with specialized tactile knobs and stuff. But it might make sense in the field.

Artist's Mastodon. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@androidarts

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Source: PATCH ██-█8-██:0█ (by junk boy - ArtStation)

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Source with more images: Apollo 11 Data Acquisition Camera (by Neil Houari - ArtStation):

The Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" was equipped with this automatic Maurer 16mm data acquisition camera (DAC), designed to operate at several speeds while documenting technical aspects of the mission.
Around 15k tris.

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Source with more images: Canon DCC Camera (by Rustam Shaikhlislamov - ArtStation):

Fictional prop.

Searching for "Digital Compact Cassette" portable, I found the (very cool) Sony TCD-D10 (source with more images and specifications: Hifi Speaker Wiki). It wouldn't surprise me if it was part of the mood-board for this project, or even its main inspiration.

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Source with more images: "DEATHLOOP" - Hackamajig (by Maxime Goichot - ArtStation):

The Hackamajig is a device that allows Colt to hack turrets, sensors, security shutters or even unlock doors
It's a first person asset used by the player throughout the game
The hackamajig is made out of two parts, a walkie-talkie and a homemade hacking thingy attached to it
Walkie-talkie part was done in placeholder state by an outsourcer before I worked on it
Concept by Aimé Jalon
Narrative design (text on the second render) by Bennett Smith

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Source: picturesofthingsilike (Flickr): Aiwa CS-M1 + Aiwa HS-M2 - 3

Aiwa CS-M1 Miniture Boombox, Radio / Stereo Microcassette (1983) + Aiwa HS-M2 Stero Microcassette (1982).

Via childrenlastdawn ✺ on Tumblr
Via Buttons & Knobs — AIWA CS-M1