jupitersolo

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.

invisiblewar

so you could crack a head open with it and listen to music...awesome

doopstr

Anyone know original cost? All I know is my parents wouldn't get me one.

jupitersolo

I paid $175 for mine, it was one that would record. circa 1982

Gfaze

I think mine was around $50 because it was digital with station presets, clock, bass boost. At the time it was pretty cool.

Scrib

I remember listening to the Ghostbusters soundtrack on mine.

Whiskers

I rocked one...

PimpCL23

i had one. damn metal headphone band use to pull my hair all the time!

dallison

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 .

PimpCL23

^^ and u would have been my best friend

dallison

does anyone know when the mp3 was born or at least the idea?

Whiskers

The Rio was the first MP3 player (I have the first model)....But MP3 came out around 1998...

Eggplant-EX

I still have mine in metallic blue...

stogie1020

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.

invisiblewar

^my mum had one of those...i remember riding in our bronco diggin through the casette case. shit my family was late to the game with cds

Black Tire

kids today don't know how good they have it compared to us back in the 80's.

invisiblewar

damn kids, back in the day I had to walk 10 miles to school...in 15 feet of snow during a hurricane

invisiblewar

obligatory

PortlandRL

How blind do you have to be to not know there are two sides to a cassette? What would happen if they gave him a 33 rpm record? Would he try to jam it into a CD player?

NSXNEXT

iTrader: (2)

Got this exact one when I was 13 for my Bar Mitzvah.

Ken1997TL

Or even earlier, i remember seeing MP3s on IRC networks around '95 or '96

Yumcha

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...

achenator

post a pic, i think I had the same 1

Ken1997TL

Are you trying to tell us something in a roundabout way?

'01White3.2CL

was it also uphill going there, and uphill on the way back?

gotta wait couple years for good prices, i found one in the garbage the other day...i just cant find any cassette tapes

Yumcha

HEY! No lowblows.

wasupdog

iTrader: (2)

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.

#1 STUNNA

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

is300eater

I had one too, but I listened to "Pacman Fever"

v6cord2k5

iTrader: (1)

I still have my Sony Walkman. It isn't as old as the one in the first post and it still works. MEGA bass FTW, it also has an AM/FM tuner.

evilone

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.

is300eater

^^^I think they did the yellow thing/water proof thing with the Discman too.

TSX 'R' US

But did it and the tapes transform?

I never got a walkman....mine was made by Panasonic

cM3go

And the new Sony Walkman

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...52921665869102

is300eater

^^^wow, it's got an OLED screen!

#1 STUNNA

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

is300eater

of course... it's a Sony. It's in their nature to do things different

mdkxtreme

I hate it when people say this. Because then I can come back and say you 80's people have it good compared to the people in the 50's

#1 STUNNA

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.

bigman

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.