A sad day for children of the '80's

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/25/sony.retires.walkman.mashable/index.html

It was still around?

I'm surprised it's not the DiscMan they are retiring. I saw someone with a discman the other day, and I thought they were crazy...

neon4891 wrote: It was still around?

That's what I was thinking....considering mine was doorless by 87

Platinum90 wrote: I'm surprised it's not the DiscMan they are retiring. I saw someone with a discman the other day, and I thought they were crazy...

There's a lady who walks around our neighborhood with a Disc Man. I've thought about giving her an MP3 player several times.

I never had a sonywalkman.. I did have the Aiwa version though.. th "upmarket" sony product.

As for Discmans.. I had several over the years that I used to put music into my cars (via a tapedeck adaptor) until the prices of car CD players got managable

I have a MP3 walkman currently, no Megabass, useless EQ, etc, oh well.

I had one of those for a lot of years. The DiskMan too. I don't miss them so much I don't have a MP3 player either. With enough stereo in the house, you just turn it up until you can hear it in the yard.

does this mean I'm required to get rid of mine now ?

I had the GPX "downmarket" brand. Couldn't afford one of those highfalutin' Sonys...

I still have a mid 85 production "sports" walkman I still use. I takes 1 AA battery and lasts forever. I even had to find a new suicidal tendencies tape after I wore the first one out..

I worked in the Kmart electronics department back in 1980-1982 and I remember when I listened to my first Sony - it was awesome and nothing else like it but the price was expensive for me.

cassettes?

funny.. I had the tape and CD portables.. but never went to an MP3 player.. unless you count my phone

wow didn't know they still made em outside of the super cheapies in wal-mart... sad to see it go... but it is as old as I am so it's prob time to move on haha

i still have an off brand portable CD player... used it before I had an mp3 player... it played mp3s off a disc which was nice for long road trips...

I suppose if you don't have a computer an mp3 player wouldn't do you much good though...

Platinum90 wrote: I'm surprised it's not the DiscMan they are retiring. I saw someone with a discman the other day, and I thought they were crazy...

Still got mine. They made the bottoms out of metal. METAL!

DoctorBlade wrote: I had the GPX "downmarket" brand. Couldn't afford one of those highfalutin' Sonys...

grand prix electronics ftw. i had their big clunky portable cd player when all the rich kids at school had discmans. i got laughed at. but i got the last laugh when it outlasted their stuff.

A few weeks ago I saw a Discman, and was surprized to see that a store still sold them. Walkman? I thought it was long gone. Ironically, the 2 or 3 Walkmans I've owned over the years FAR outlasted the cassettes that I used in them. One reason why I gave them up, tho, was that I didn't have a battery recharger at the time and I got tired of buying the batteries.

i think i still have my GPX tape player somewhere.. wasnt until about 4 weeks ago that i finnally adapted to new tech and got a phone that played mp3's ( i have like 3 players, but never learned how to use them )

Drewsifer wrote:

Platinum90 wrote: I'm surprised it's not the DiscMan they are retiring. I saw someone with a discman the other day, and I thought they were crazy...

There's a lady who walks around our neighborhood with a Disc Man. I've thought about giving her an MP3 player several times.

My wife has a discman specifically for books on CD (from the library) On long car trips, I'll have the run of the Sirius and she'll zone out w/ her book on CD.

If she ever fires up the ipod I gave her last Christmas, that will all be moot, I suppose.

I have an Ipod that I use almost daily. I have a Discman that I use quite often as well--two actually, an old D121 model, and a newer one. And whenever I'm home (not at college), I have a Walkman that I use to listen to old Garrison Keillor tapes that I've never found on CD or MP3.
Come to think of it, when I'm at home I listen to both of our record players at least 2 times a week each. I pretty much span every generation

I think I'm a relatively rare breed though.

gamby wrote:

Drewsifer wrote:

Platinum90 wrote: I'm surprised it's not the DiscMan they are retiring. I saw someone with a discman the other day, and I thought they were crazy...

There's a lady who walks around our neighborhood with a Disc Man. I've thought about giving her an MP3 player several times.

My wife has a discman specifically for books on CD (from the library) On long car trips, I'll have the run of the Sirius and she'll zone out w/ her book on CD. If she ever fires up the ipod I gave her last Christmas, that will all be moot, I suppose.

you can rip those books on cd to mp3 format on your computer.. you know, as a backup and for personal use only..

Grand Prix may outlast Sony, but Grand Prix has nothing on Gold Star electronics.

You could always get the fake walkman to carry your Ipod in.

My parents have one of those original Walkmans kicking around somewhere, just like the one posted above (sans Ipod, of course).

I was a big fan of the "Sony Sports" Walkmans. They used to take a beating! I had two different ones: the original bright yellow one that had the two headphone inputs for sharing the music with a friend, and a cool dark green one with Mega Bass. I used to rock that thing every day on my paper route, and it's still around somewhere, and I bet it still works fine.

I've had 3 different MP3 players over the years: a Toshiba 40gb Gigabeat (total POS) a 80gb 2nd gen Zune (even bigger POS) and a 80gb Ipod. I've had the Ipod for 3+ years now, I have used it every day since, and it still works fine.

I recall my father's 91 vintage Sport Walkman. Auto reverse was great, and i could get it to play the tape backwards. Saddly It died on me some time in 2000. It almost always had a Queen cassette, IIRC the album with "Another One Bites the Dust" in it. And a pair of AAs would last about 30 Hours, being a month of using it on the school bus.

The CD player that replaced it needed new batteries every week and a half.