What is this new Technology, called a "Walkman"
 

new kids vs old technology.


Damn. I had one in 1980.





https://uncrate.com/video/kids-react-to-the-walkman/

I’m thinking about getting one. Waiting for the price to come down.

My son used mine as a prop for Halloween. The Walkman still worked and he enjoyed listening to Bruce Springsteen.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1549649054.jpg

Couldn't afford one. I wish we had Chinese shipping knockoffs all over the world back then. Who said Chinese knockoff are bad?

Also fun..hand a youngster a dial telephone.

Entertaining.

Can't believe it, but then again, it's all touch screen today. I wonder how many phone numbers the average teen knows today vs 20 years ago.

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Walkmans are worth some decent money on the secondary market. The older the better. Usually a couple of dollars at thrift or estate sales. I've sold a few, but have yet to find one of the first generation like this:





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Had to give a history lesson in my Linux class last night on rotary phones, acoustic coupler modems, and dialing into BBSes at 900 baud

apparantly new music is being sold on tapes again, they are up each year, from millenials and retro hipsters that are buying old walkmans and use em..

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/01/09/cassette-tape-comeback/

If I go to jail the only person I could call would be myself or an old high school pal that has the same number today as in the way-back.

Forget crank calls such as "Is your refrigerator running?

I am old, did it all, CompuServe was my beotch

2 amazingly awesome videos in this thread.
Thank you !

900? When I started in computers (1876), we had two speeds. 110 and 300! And that was set by the phone company. I don't think we advanced to 1200 until the early 1980's. My laptop in 1988 (Toshiba 1200 HD) I had to install a modem/memory card. Boosted RAM to 2MB (640K usable, the rest was for RAM drives) and had a 1200 Baud modem.


Up to 1982, ANYTHING attached to a phone line was AT&T equipment. Acoustic couplers got around it...

Scott, the pic of your son made me think of this!
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Nokia is re-releasing my first phone:

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-3310

My first Walkman was a knockoff about $100. It needed 4 AA batteries and CHEWED through them

My last one the unit was about the size of a cassette when closed and only slightly bigger when you put in the cassette. I bought it in 1989 and used it while I lived in Pakistan. This used a single AA battery and seemed to last a long time.

I had one of these, bought with money from mowing lawns in Japan in approx 1984/5. I want to say that I paid the equivalent of about $90.

SONY WM-7 world’s first auto-reverse Walkman | The Walkman Archive
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Mine is still around somewhere. I'm a hoarder.

Not I....

Anyone want my '85 Sony $1500 Betamax (and both tapes :()...or the 3000 cd binge from back then....

I still have no clue why I bought that Sony...:)