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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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Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982 (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Typical snobbery.

The Sinclair was rather ridiculed at the time as "not a real computer".

Nothing ever changes - Instead of being excited by someone having the skills to implement chess in 670k of memory by using freakin' machine language, and appreciating the Sinclair for what it is, they compared to what they had.

I mean wow, if you've never done machine language coding... I'm flabbergasted.