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I guess that panasonic one I had in 1986 would be over next to the dinosaurs.
Mine was like the first one shown in this commercial. What they don't show you was the huge battery pack you had put the portable in.
This early 21st century edition includes Anti-Skip Protection, some archaeological research indicates that it functioned the same way ESP or Electronic Skip Protection, however no conclusive records have ever been recovered…
c. 2002
That is a low blow, museum
What's the long black cable coming off it?
It’s a headphones cable with a built-in remote so you could put the player in your bag and change tracks using the remote built into the headphones cable.
Also you guys are making me feel painfully old.
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Also, are those two circles the display? That's a pretty cool design. I really like old technology.
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It was never called a Tapeman, so why disc?
It should be a runman or a walkwoman.
The Walkman was by Sony, and they did make CD versions. This is clearly Panasonic trying to capitalize on brand recognition by having a similar sounding name to an already well recognized name.
Discman is Sonys CD Walkman line.
My point was that Walkman never mentions tapes, so why mention the media format in the sequels name.
That's because the sequel had to differentiate itself from the first one. It had to tell you not only that it was a similar idea to the first, but also that it used discs instead of tapes.
The first Walkman had nothing to differentiate from. It was the first.
Because you could hardly walk, let alone run with one if you actually wanted to enjoy the music
The anti skip actually worked really well. I used to have it in my backpack and didn’t have many issues.
Although I couldn’t afford many batteries to run it often, and rechargeable sucked.
I take it your backpack was a Steadicam rig.
Ode to a world of ownership
I don't know why, but this hits the hardest.
Hah, I had that exact model in high school. It eventually broke and I replaced it with something better via best buy warranty.
Me too buddy, me too.