Im working on a few sci fi sets on the back burner, so maybe I can work some of this in...if you clarify.  What do you mean by that era?   Are you talking aesthetics of the era?  He-man, Voltron and Heavy Metal? Bright colors and high contest sprays like the sides of arcade cabinets? Geiger-like weirdly organic hallways like Alien?  Or specific elements from film/literature of the time? Dyson spheres? Event Horizon?