Back in the day, the Sony walkman was the bomb. It was expensive, high tech and enjoyed exclusivity for years, even as knock offs flooded venue by venue until they reached the bottom of the market....convenience stores and carnival prizes. Eventually, the .mp3 format and the iPod killed off the cassette based walkman and it’s many daughters. When you see the current success and fad of the iPad...That’s what the walkman was like back in those days.
Yep! I remember the day the guitar player in our band brought over his brand spanking new Sony Walkman. We were SO amazed with it! And how SMALL it was! And the sound was JUST like our big stereos.
Seems like just a few years ago. Funny to think that this thing is in a MUSEUM now.
Same goes for another friend’s TRS-80 computer...
Ya. Apparently they still make cassette tapes.
Your post took me back to a warm place and time of my life. I fondly remember getting a Walkman in he sixth grade and being able to listen to my own tapes in the car on those painful 55 MPH road trips.
How far our country has come. . . and sadly GONE since those days.
I would trade all of the technology if it would reverse the police state that has come of it.
The real scary thin is thinking about the exponential nature of technology, and where we might be 5 or ten years from now.
Sad, but the 4th gen iPod is actually better for music than the present ipod., IMHO.