Film Projectors, Cameras, Radios and Home Computers From The Past

Today I'm going to take you back a few years, a few decades in history and show you what photographing looked like in the past and not only. I'm going to show you some old devices I found at the museum.

You have here 2 film editing devices. On the left a Samsey Koki Co. Kawasaky from Japan, made in 1960. The other on the right it's a Soviet make, a Kupawa - CP, made in 1982.

An old microscope and an old photo of a lab.

I wanted to say this is a more modern microscope, but the instructions are from 1968, which was 55 years ago 😂

This is a Diamator 2502 AF slide projector made in Portugal in in the 80's.

Another one from 1960.

This is a slightly newer one, from 1980. My dad had one.

A Siemens, 16mm movie projector from 1951, made in Berlin, Germany. Imagine making videos with this device, using film.

Imagine carrying all these boxes with you.

A 8mm Austrian film projector EUMIG S 810, from the 80's. Behind it another one from the 80's, a German make, Leitz Cinovid.

Another film projector from 1978, Pentacon SL, made in Germany.

This was quite a surprise. It's a Philips film projector from 1979, made in Romania. I had no idea these were made in Romania as Philips is not a Romanian brand.

A collection of cameras from 1912 to more recent years. Have you ever seen any of these?

Electronica, a Romanian radio made in 1960. My grandparents had a similar one, my dad still has it.

This is the same brand but a newer model, from 1963. I'm a bit skeptical about the years as the difference between the two radios is 3 years, but difference in design is huge. I think the previous one is older, but that's just a guess.

On top of the black one, there's a Zefir radio, made in Romania in the 90's.

This was a cool one. A radio and a record player in one box. Electronica, made in Romania in the 70's.

Another Romanian radio from the 70's. I keep wondering what life would be like if we would only have a radio to keep us up to date with the news and entertain us.

This one made me smile as my dad had one of this. It's from the 80's. I think this one was working with batteries too.

Here I think someone had the wires crossed as the label says this is a Baltica from Estonia, made in the 80's. No way they made such radios in the 80's in my opinion, this must be way older. And it seems like I was right. According to this platform, this model was made between 1950–1952 and I believe them as that's what you see in the movies too.

This was a Romanian make, from 1952. Would look cool in a vintage room for sure.

This photo tells you what life looked like in the 50's. Imagine yourself sitting in the armchair, enjoying a tea or a coffee, reading the newspaper or listening to the radio. Life was quite slow back then, compared to the rush we have now on a daily bases.

Here it comes the fun stuff, so buckle up! This is a Philips P2000 M, Home Computer Data System, made in 1981 in the Netherlands. I've never seen one before, I must confess.

I was naughty this time and pulled the floppy disc off, to be able to take a photo. For those of you who don't know what it is:

A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy or a diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk. Floppy disks store digital data which can be read and written when the disk is inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or inside a computer or other device. source

What you see on the photo is a 8 inch floppy. The capacity of such a disk was of 0.5 MB. I think I need to mention that these computers worked only with DOS and you could store text on them, there were no video or audio content. But of course, I could be wrong.

This was an 3.4 inch floppy disc, with a 1.44MB capacity. This was a huge step compared the the 8 inch, 0.5M floppy, but still nothing compared to the external hard drive of God knows how many Terra that we have available today.

At the end of the working day you saved the data to have a backup.

This was an old printer from 1980, made in the Netherlands. These worked with 2 or 3 sheets of paper, self inked and made a terrible noise.

Lol, another home computer, a Commodore 8296D, made in Germany in the 80's.

Doing these posts about these old objects I've found at the museum made me think of how many things we have in our pocket today, meaning how many functions our smartphone can cover. Let's try to make a list.

• music player, which means it serves as a record player, cassette player, tape recorder, CD player and mp3 player as well as those were the last music players I believe
• TV, you can watch movies, videos on your phone today
• video camera, you can record any video you want,
• photographic camera, you can take photos with your camera and don't even need so many lenses as some are already incorporated by default,
• radio, I'm not sure who is listening to radio these days, but you can as each phone has a radio function as well
• typewriter, you can type any text you want, connect your phone to a printer and print it out,
• computer, you can have almost any app on your phone and use it as a pc,
• calculator, the calculator we have get with our smartphones are 1000 times smarter than the one I showed you in my last post,
• magnifying glass, you can zoom in any photo or text by using your camera,
• pager, I would mention the pager too as we can send text messages, which was the original idea behind the pager, it's just that back in those days the message had to go through an operator,
• memory stick, you can store data, audio, video materials on your phone,
• scanner, code scanning is possible these days
• mail box and post office, this partially true, as you can only send electronic mail, but if you think of how many are sending letter and postcards today, I think we can list it,
• bank, this is maybe the biggest as due to mobile banking, banks are shrinking, no need for such a numerous personnel,
• flashlight, we don't need a flashlight anymore as we have one incorporated in our phone.

Now imagine all these devices in a room as I bet they wouldn't fit on a single table and we have it all in our pocket today. Tomorrow as technology evolves, we may have even more in our pocket.

I'm sure the list is not complete, so if you can think of more, please let me know in a comment.

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