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.

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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...:)

My 1995 Subaru car stereo is still cassette.
Ultralightweight doors and frame. Free-flow injectors. OBD2 bypassed. Open headers. Sometimes locking differential. Race car.
Never even used the cleaner/degausser tapes.
Volume knob broke but I'll probably superglue it back on in the springtime.
Or save the money and drive it into the ocean.
Meh.

The new one is $3200...not written in green because it's not BS.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman/nw-wm1z

When they made portable music players smaller must have about the time they made overly dramatic kids so annoying! There were one or two kids in that video that sounded reasonably intelligent and were tolerable, the rest needed a good slap.

I wanted one, this is what Santa brought.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1549677440.jpg

Bonus points if you can tell me what baud means. (Hint, it predates computers...)

That guy, Emile Baudot or something... my first modem was a Hayes 2400, so I’m a bit younger. I just happen to learn computer history. Starting with Charles Babbage, the ENIAC, the EDVAC...

3000 cds you say? How many Columbia House accounts did you have?

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Left my phone at home yesterday. Only needed it one time, and there was a courtesy phone at the grocery store where I could call.

I dated myself by asking the cashier where a payphone was. She had no idea where one was. The lady in front of me, carting groceries away, mentioned the better question was "Does she know what one is?" She did, and there is phone over there, just dial 9 1st. Smooth operation in short time. However, the people nearby were wtf'ing as I went about business.

Roll it back to better times.

When we had only a dial phone in my house...

I dated a girl whose number was

889-9899

Even trying to power dial... that number took forever...

And that is a number I will always remember...

Yes, because scrounging around for a quarter to make a phone call off a payphone is better times. You should discard your cell phone for maximum good times! You should also send your auto-mobile to the crusher and ride around on a pony. Then die of cholera. Better times!

None....just like with albums in college....I hit the RECORD stores every Tues (new release day), for years...2 at a time :). About a third of them are in multi-disc changers....store away right now :(.

edited...Half of my cds are live shows....FREE ;)....like a 911 habit...

Maybe my AKAI reel to reel will be worth a few bucks some day. Along with my Dynaco pre amp and power amp.

I have a few fried Carvers I used to bridge mono (1k watts), and need a preamp (now) too...you wanna let the Dynacos go?

I have huge SDA Polks to trade :)

Interested in Fried Carver amp.


I have Sunfire and Carver gear.

Several Pre-amps. 5 channel 200watt per Grand Cinema.

yummy other stuff like 2700 watt subwoofers.


trades?

Interested in Fried Carver amp.


I have Sunfire and Carver gear.


trades or paypal.........:D

I haven't forgotten about you ;)....

I gots two fried 1.0t....they are yours if ya want them.

I gots a (needs TLC now) 4.0t ..... can you help it brother? It bridged stereo would meet requirements now ;).....

I need a pre-amp.....

You've got ribbons...and shipping two 180 lb Polk SDAs might be out....road trip :)!

Let's chat...

Sorry Flatbutt II has dibbs on those. SmileWavy

Wasn't AKAI Sony's second brand?

reel to reel decks are probably at the zenith (a pun!) of their value right now. If it is a nice one its worth something.