30 yrs ago today... The Sony Walkman
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30 yrs ago today... The Sony Walkman
I read one story today, a 13 yr boy in England was given one this week for him to see what it was like. He couldn't believe how big it was. He also had it for three days before he realized that there are two sides to a cassette tape.
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Anyone know original cost? All I know is my parents wouldn't get me one.
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I paid $175 for mine, it was one that would record. circa 1982
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I rocked one...
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used to listen to it all the time. my 1st one was prob in 89-90. I used to mow relatives' lawns and came up with the idea for the mp3.
i thought if only there was a way to get one tape in a little device that you could connect to the pc to download the songs, b/c my tapes were warped and this little box wouldn't warp.
Now if i knew the right people back then and if mp3's or whatever i would have called it would have caught on, i would be a little more wealthy .
i thought if only there was a way to get one tape in a little device that you could connect to the pc to download the songs, b/c my tapes were warped and this little box wouldn't warp.
Now if i knew the right people back then and if mp3's or whatever i would have called it would have caught on, i would be a little more wealthy .
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I had a standard one, although it may hvae been Panasonic (Sony guts!), and then bought myself a Sport in that awful yellow with the water resistant clasp.
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I had a great walkman going through grade school. It was made by Aiwa and was roughly the size of a cassette too...bought it in Japan. I remember being the guy with the "coolest" walkman in school because no one had seen something that "small" before...
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Are you trying to tell us something in a roundabout way?
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damn i had the 1986 sony one. i forget the model number but it had green lettering and the sound on one ear always cut out so my parents were mad having to take me back to the store to exchange it 5 times.
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I had a couple. one was regular cheap walkman with no rewind so if you wanted to rewind you had to flip the tape over and fast forward. The other was the yellow sport walkmans which had a water resistant seal and it had MEGA bass
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man I remember those old ass walkmans. I also remember when cds got really big and sony made a water resistant cd Walkman which wasyellow.
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^^^I think they did the yellow thing/water proof thing with the Discman too.
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I never got a walkman....mine was made by Panasonic
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^^^wow, it's got an OLED screen!
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yup OLED and noise cancellation built into the device and not the headphones. So you can use any headphones you want and still get noise cancellation.
too bad it only plays ATRAC files
too bad it only plays ATRAC files
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I was joking there but yeah they usually create some proprietary technology with the hope that they're "popularity" will cause people to buy their shit and that will make their proprietary shit pretty much a standard and then they'll rake in $$$ from licensing it. they try to recreate the success of the CD format every chance they can.
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It's the opposite. We had it good back then. Think about it, kids now arent excited about shit anymore. They expect major advancements in technology on a yearly basis. When i was growing up in the 80's technology didnt move nearly as fast as it does today and everything was exciting. My walkman was the most awesome thing in the world, i carried that, and later my gameboy everywhere. Today, if a kid cant carry one device that plays music, movies, games, browses the internet, and makes phone calls, they dont want it. Kids today have great technology, i'll give them that. but, today's technology has made them numb to the next great advancements. And dont confuse people wanting the new"it" thing with people being genuinely excited and awed by new technology.