Osborne Executive (1983)

The side of the Gemini spacecraft adapter section, as viewed from Gene Cernan's EVA, Gemini IX-A

(via Reddit - Dive into anything)

Modulus Service & Security robot by Sirius, Italy (1984). Modulus is a Commodore 64 driven personal robot available in three separate versions, the base unit, the Service & Security robot, and the full 'Moddy'. "The Service & Security robot is obtained by fitting the Techno-Cake home-security and service unit onto the Base. The components allow the robot to signal the presence of smoke, gas, and intruders. Fitting the robot with a support attachment and plotter-device, the robot can utilize a humidity probe to detect water leaks. At the first sign of danger, it can inform a computer or trigger a built-in siren." The Techno-Cake can hold up to 8 interchangeable hardware and software slices, including an arm with ample freedom of movement and considerable gripping power.

Skylab orbital workshop in orbit, and the back-up unit at the National Air and Space Museum

TOMY Verbot robot from 1984 that has been sitting on a shelf for at least 30 years. Today I took him down and found the numerous AA, C and 9v batteries he needed.

In his youth you could program him to respond to voice commands from the microphone remote. Now his little power and programming lights come on but he doesn't respond when I talk to him.

I know he's listening. He's a good boy still, even if he doesn't feel like moving right now..

onestop.mid

??? - onestop.mid

schizorella: “You might already know, but this is a midi file found in Windows operating systems in the C:\Windows\Media folder.  People say it was used as a test file but I don’t think anyone really knows why it’s there. Nevertheless, it’s awesome!!!”

Mysterious!!!

I've uploaded a few more videos from the Apollo 15 dvd set which means you too can experience them slamming pretty hard into the ground causing Irwin to exclaim "BAM!"

Sharp MZ-731 (1982)

Modulus Base by Sirius, Italy (1984). Modulus is a Commodore 64 driven personal robot available in three separate versions, the bae unit, a Service & Security robot, and the full 'Moddy'. "The Base unit can be added to for different functions. As it stands, it can be used in hobbies as a home computer, self propelled peripheral, and can be useful to people wanting to learn how to program robots. The simplest attachments which can be connected to the Base unit are a vacuum cleaner and a plotter-mechanism that uses felt pens to produce drawings of considerable precision." – Modulus Robots.

Apollo 7 blasts off from Cape Canaveral, October 11, 1968.

Discrete 7400-series TTL computer card and magnetic 8-track recorder from the Voyager-1 space probes Flight Data System.

This hardware has been in continuous operation for 47 years and is now 15 billion miles from Earth, still on its exploration mission.

Amazing what humans can accomplish when they actually cooperate with each other.

TV studio control room

Hi. Broadcast engineer here with a larger version of this image:

What you're looking at here is a mobile TV satellite truck apparently built in 1995 (but probably updated a bit with time). This is essentially a way to provide uplink for a remote broadcast back to the studio. You'll note a distinct lack of a production video switcher present.

Plus, it has to not only send video back to the studio, it's gotta receive signals from the studio like instructions, or IFB feeds for the reporters/crew, and sometimes even video feeds to show that things are properly configured.

Bandai Pair Match. 1984.

Feels like a dusty old memory just got excavated. I think I remember something like this in a family friend's house in the early/mid 90s, and had no fucking idea what it was. Then again, there were alot of other futuristic pyramid shaped devices at the time, so who knows.