Sony Walkman.

[Mulletino]

Re: Sony Walkman.

My missus still has the Sony Walkman her dad bought her when she was young, it has the built in radio. She works at a radio station and was getting the bus in so was using it to listen out for something she needed to check. One of her colleagues noticed it on her desk and thought it was the coolest thing ever!

[ridski]

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My sister came back from the States with a Toshiba KTAS10, which is still probably one of the coolest looking Walkman-alikes out there, so I 'borrowed' it for about 4 years. It was actually the size of a cassette, and had a smaller radio adapter that you slotted in like a regular cassette.

Here's a not very clear picture.



I loved that thing. But when it finally crapped out, I switched to 29 pound Aiwas like this one:

[branny]

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My first one cost about £40 in the 80s when I was at college. It was huge. It had a carry case that you had to feed your belt through. Unfortunately, the material wasn't strong enough to hold th weight of the player so it didn't last very long. My 2nd was a panasonic, much smaller and cost me about £60. That just expired due to wear and tear. My 3rd was another Sony and was given to me as a leaving present when i left a job. That was early 90s and pretty much was the size of a cassette. I've still got it somewhere. Never had a CD walkman, too bulky. Still have 2 minidisc walkmans and an mp3 walkman but even that now is large (mobile phone size) compared to recent models. I never use it though. Can never decide what to put on it. Too much choice.

[yelever]

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Just bought a sony mp3 walkman and reminded me of one a had growing up. Don`t know where it came from but it had a 5 band graphic equalizer on it and was silver. Most of the kids in school were jealous as the had standard megabasses. Think it may have been a megabass but definately know it was a sony. Had a look on line and can`t find any info on it. The one before was a megabass but only had a 2 band graphic equalizer on it and didn`t sound as good.

[Shania Twain]

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Gosh I must look out my first Sony Walkman my dad gave me and see what modal it is, my dad handed it down to me and I think it was made in the early eighties, it still worked when I last used it, I have it somewhere

[Austin 1100]

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ye im a huge collector of walkmans go about 60 of them most are still boxed.a fantastic invention.they were actually produced when a head of sony said to one of its engineers that he woul like to listen to music on the move.the engineer asked him what size andt the boss pulled a tape from his pocket and said .that size.so the walkman was actually invented around the cassette tape not vice versa..blimey im waffling now.hope this has been a bit of useless info for you.lol.pablo

Pablo,
Have you seen this Walkman collector's forum?
http://stereo2go.com/6/ubb.x

[Heather74]

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I loved my walkman, thought I looked so cool walking around the local park with it. If only they knew I was listening to Rick Astley at full blast

[pedro]

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Your right Pablo mez amigo, the size of the cassette tape did restict them producing a smaller Walkman then CD's overtook the development. I just threw one out when we moved house recently. My kids couldn't believe the size of it compared with thier MP3's, I-pods and the like

[Oggy]

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I had one, and used to record the top 40, probably top 30 in those olden days, on cassettes.....

[sixtyten]

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Were they the yellow ones that were sort of waterproof or something?

Water resistant,but not water proof

[Christina36]

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i remember having one

[pablo]

sony walkman answers

ye im a huge collector of walkmans go about 60 of them most are still boxed.a fantastic invention.they were actually produced when a head of sony said to one of its engineers that he woul like to listen to music on the move.the engineer asked him what size andt the boss pulled a tape from his pocket and said .that size.so the walkman was actually invented around the cassette tape not vice versa..blimey im waffling now.hope this has been a bit of useless info for you.lol.pablo

[remember]

Tallulah - You can get them on eBay for £30 (plus P&P) but if you want to go through someone reputable I can recommend someone. Send me a PM if you want the details.

[Tallulah]

I just got myself a tiny 256MB player for £30!

ahem..... can you spill the beans? Where from???? I've got a really basic MP3 player (64mg) that only holds 15 songs - I'm after an up-to-date cheap one - preferably a USB stick type coz I use a USB pen driver and I'm sure that a 2-in-1 would be better!

[Snakeystew]

Were they the yellow ones that were sort of waterproof or something?