Antique

[JoeyGee]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...KE7.DTL&nopu=1

Kids...

[Pappy]

Smart-Alec Snotnosed KID!

[dbhost]

Uh huh...

I still own cassettes. A LOT of them... Some pretty rare stuff too...

[LinuxRandal]

Had quite the chuckle. Of course I also had reel to reel, eight tracks, 33's,45's, a couple #10's at one point, and remember when a friend bought one of the very first cd players for his car (I don't want to remember the price).

And yet, I am not yet 40.

[cabinetman]

I think I got ya-all beat (so far). How about a "wire recorder", and an original Polaroid Land Camera (just a bit bigger than a digital), oh wait...a Brownie Hawkeye.
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[BobSch]

I remember wire recorders. How about 16" transcription records? Fit a whole show on one disk.

[pelligrini]

hehe, I wonder if his dad told him about the huge boom boxes some kids had hoisted on their shoulders, like the ones which took half a dozen or more D batteries.

[germdoc]

How about the first cellphone--the "brick"?

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststu...m/first41.html

[HarmsWay]

Here's a link to the full BBC article about the Walkman. It's quite well written.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

[BobSch]

Here's a link to the full BBC article about the Walkman. It's quite well written.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

He would have had a coronary if he'd seen a boombox form the '80s.

[HarmsWay]

I found the kid's perspective interesting though. It would be interesting to see a review of the original Walkman. It was very revolutionary but more or less than say a first gen iPod Nano with 4GB of space and no moving parts? I don't know. The Walkmans were the first truly portable mass market music players I think, so perhaps that makes them more important. I have a pristine Sony Walkman (TPSL2?) from '79 or '80. It was a really big deal back then. My iPod got me back listening to music again.

[LinuxRandal]

The Walkmans were the first truly portable mass market music players I think, so perhaps that makes them more important.

Not transistor radio's, or bards before that?

[pelligrini]

What about the Harmonica?

[HarmsWay]

Well transistor radios would have been important as well. Before my time though and I was thinking more in terms of something mass market and portable that would play music that was under the user's control. That really limits the field to tapes, CDs and iPod-like players. Harmonica? Nope. I have one and no music has every come out of it.

[pelligrini]

One person's noise can be another person's music.

I do agree on the mass market and especially name recognition with the Walkman. Although, I wasn't around when the transistor radio hit big, but I don't recall any radio referred to with a brand name. Walkman didn't always mean the particular Sony device, just like Xerox.