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*sigh*
They were all new and you didn't have to walk around with a boombox on your shoulder.
My first radio had a walkman type item that popped out, so i could do both.
No, see, you plug in the monkey and he does your running around for you.
See how he's being hypnotized into doing your bidding in the video?
With music.
They came up with that in the 80s.
Then they made robots.
Then there was the uprising.
History must suck in schools now.
iconomy, Yes, I'm a little surprised to discover. But then, for Sony to discontinue the walkmanses would be a little like Nikon discontinuing the 35mm film camera.
But for how long?
i should have used stress quotes, but aren't tape players these days basically disposable? not to mention disc players.
i have one of the first cd players and that thing still runs like aces. Built like a brick.
Since the beginning they just got more and more disposable.
There must be at least five disc players in my place and two are definitely deadsville built in obsolescence and wonky balances and motors over time, etc...
damn my parents for not letting me keep their old component stereo
I suppose it depends. If you buy something like this it's gonna last awhile. This, not so much.
I also had a really old CD player up until a few years ago.
I wish my parents gave more of a shit about that stuff. My Dad still brags to me about his crappy AIWA combo setup.
Mine didn't, dad was just sort of a gadget guy and it was apparently time to get a stereo in the 80s. He happened to get a really good component stereo that they never used and was given to the Salvation Army behind my back a few years ago.
Quarter inch jacks, i could plug straight into it.
Dad's guy gadget ways got us the first ataris and apples, etc. (and sci fi stuff on telly).
In fact, the only reason i have a digital camera and a dvd player is because they are old first run early on models he's upgraded from (and never uses).
Oh, that Salvation Army stuff kills me. I'm always like "you gave away what??!"
Curious - what do you have that can you plug straight into with quarter inch jacks?
Ya know, guitars. Just use it for amps and record straight into it.
i am not going into the thievery of my guitar. Right now all i got is a 5 string bass with dead strings and no amp here (totally impossible to play it amped, noisewise)
tired, tired bunny me, and i gotta go brave the cold in a bit
My phone (a Sony Erikson) plays FM radio and has a Walkman logo on it. So technically they still make them. With an memory expansion card, it has ipod-like qualities.
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