Who remembers what a walkman is?

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25 Nov 2023, 3:11 pm

I remember use one as a kid.

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25 Nov 2023, 4:07 pm

Yeah a Sony Walkman. It was the first and last time I ever wore headphones outdoors. I must have been going through a phase.

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25 Nov 2023, 4:14 pm

Did have a budget one which played cassettes. Rarely used it as walking with listening to music wasn't easy!

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25 Nov 2023, 4:41 pm

I've owned two of them, along with a few portable CD players. I think I still have one of each, although they'd be in a junk chest.

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25 Nov 2023, 5:17 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

I've owned two of them, along with a few portable CD players. I think I still have one of each, although they'd be in a junk chest.

CD players are portable?

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25 Nov 2023, 5:22 pm

I used to have one that played cassettes, and then one that played CD's.

I always preferred the cassettes since they never skipped, even if you dropped or fumbled the machine, which was important when I was growing up especially since I used public transport daily.

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25 Nov 2023, 6:07 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

I've owned two of them, along with a few portable CD players. I think I still have one of each, although they'd be in a junk chest.

CD players are portable?

Yes, they had portable CD players. They called them Discmans.

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25 Nov 2023, 6:13 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

I've owned two of them, along with a few portable CD players. I think I still have one of each, although they'd be in a junk chest.

CD players are portable?

Yeah, Discman was Sony's portable, but I'm pretty sure mine were all other brands.

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25 Nov 2023, 6:14 pm

Ooh. I like that idea. Can use it with trains.

Model trains!

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25 Nov 2023, 7:26 pm

I might actually have an early one that has a mute button to be polite.

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25 Nov 2023, 10:13 pm

I also had a Sony walkman. I took that thing everywhere.

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25 Nov 2023, 10:40 pm

I had a cassette tape Walkman and a CD Walkman.

I think I still have them somewhere.

My mother still has an Eight Track player and tapes.

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26 Nov 2023, 12:14 am

when i was stationed at fort sam houston [san antonio tx] i bought one of the very first sony discmans sold, in san antonio texas, in march of 1985. people in my army barracks were going "ooohh aaahhh" at it. i played the 1812 overture on it on a high quality pioneer boombox that put out serious bass for a boombox back in the day. it couldn't handle the cannon shots except if i turned the volume way down. i still have a functioning walkman from back in the day, i use it when the power goes out so i can hear news and information.

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14 Dec 2023, 10:47 pm

I not only remember what a Walkman is, but I still have one. I still have tapes for it, too. But occasionally it would pull out and try to eat the ribbons in the tapes, which was the bane of my listening existence until the 2010s, at least.

Having to fast forward when you wanted to skip a song or rewind when you wanted to hear it again was also a pain.

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14 Dec 2023, 10:57 pm

i also have a DATman digital tape recorder/player. i used it to record long-form audio programs off of FM radio.

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