the walkman, retired

[gimmewhitecastles]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/25/sony.retires.walkman.mashable/index.html?hpt=C2

can't believe how long these have been around. i had these when i was in high school. good times.

makes me feel old too. 🙁

 

[FDF12389]

Whitecastle tastes like shit and makes me shit.

Also, I thought they stopped making knew ones a few years back.

 

[DannyLove]

No surprise here ; what with all the stupid ipods and icrap floating around. RIP Walkman. I still remember playing out the yellow-water-proof version of the walkman back in the dayz.

 

[darkxshade]

I wonder what one of these will be worth down the road. 😛

 

[joesmoke]

i was so impressed with my weather-resistant yellow n gray one. never did try swimming with that badboy tho...

 

[highland145]

I wonder what one of these will be worth down the road. 😛

Still have mine. Bought when they first came out. Expensive, iirc ($100?)

Sell it to you for what I have in it.

 

[spidey07]

I had one of the original larger ones and then upgraded to a really nice one back in 1986. It rocked.

Even had it's modern brother - the DiskMan.

 

[highland145]

I had one of the original larger ones and then upgraded to a really nice one back in 1986. It rocked.

Even had it's modern brother - the DiskMan.

That's the one. Remember the price?

 

[spidey07]

That's the one. Remember the price?

I think they went for 130-140 dollars back then I think. They weren't cheap. The top of the line ones later went for 200 IIRC.

I also remember the rubberized yellow and black ones, those were pricey.

 

[JulesMaximus]

No surprise here ; what with all the stupid ipods and icrap floating around. RIP Walkman. I still remember playing out the yellow-water-proof version of the walkman back in the dayz.

:thumbsdown: All this nostalgia over a technological dinosaur. I don't get it, give me an iPod any day!

 

[spidey07]

:thumbsdown: All this nostalgia over a technological dinosaur. I don't get it, give me an iPod any day!

An Ipod can't record, therefore a walkman is superior.

 

[techs]

I can haz walkman?

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

:thumbsdown: All this nostalgia over a technological dinosaur. I don't get it, give me an iPod any day!

the "iPod" is also obsolete. no 4g capability? no web access? no apps? pfft.

 

[BrokenVisage]

What the hell is "Mashable"?

 

[erikistired]

:thumbsdown: All this nostalgia over a technological dinosaur. I don't get it, give me an iPod any day!

because some of us were alive when the walkman was the only way to listen to music while on the go. back when we had these things called cassettes.

 

[highland145]

because some of us were alive when the walkman was the only way to listen to music while on the go. back when we had these things called cassettes.

My first car had an 8 track.😱

 

[techs]

My first car had an 8 track.😱

http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-AM-FM-...r_Audio_In_Dash_Receivers&hash=item35ad467e55
So can your new car.

 

[dainthomas]

:thumbsdown: All this nostalgia over a technological dinosaur. I don't get it, give me an iPod any day!

Give me a Walkman over the new Nano. :thumbsdown:

Those things lasted forever, and you didn't need Sony to change the batteries.

 

[highland145]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-AM-FM-...r_Audio_In_Dash_Receivers&hash=item35ad467e55
So can your new car.

Sweet. I'll be ripping out the CD/satellite stereo in my Tacoma.

Wait. All my 8 tracks were beer logged and I tossed them. :'(
Cheap Trick-Live at the Budakon gone forever. :'(

 

[techs]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-AM-FM-...r_Audio_In_Dash_Receivers&hash=item35ad467e55
So can your new car.

Sweet. I'll be ripping out the CD/satellite stereo in my Tacoma.

Wait. All my 8 tracks were beer logged and I tossed them. :'(
Cheap Trick-Live at the Budakon gone forever. :'(

Here's 275 tapes to get you started on your new collection:
http://cgi.ebay.com/X275-8-TRACK-TA...050?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b57ba9da

 

[highland145]

Here's 275 tapes to get you started on your new collection:
http://cgi.ebay.com/X275-8-TRACK-TA...050?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b57ba9da

Country? Um, no thanks.

 

[gorcorps]

Anybody else think the bigger news was that they were still making them? I had no clue. I thought they stopped a long ass time ago.

 

[spidey07]

I think I remember Sony had the patent on a portable cassette player or music player and only Sony made them for a long time. That or other companies simply didn't have the technology to make them truly portable. They were a very big deal in their time.

 

[JulesMaximus]

because some of us were alive when the walkman was the only way to listen to music while on the go. back when we had these things called cassettes.

Um, I graduated high school in the mid 1980s.

 

[zerocool84]

An Ipod can't record, therefore a walkman is superior.

Of course an iPod can't record cus it's a crappy MP3 player but any decent MP3 player has a mic on it to record.