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Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
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| 29 June 2009
| Scott Campbell
Posted on 06/29/2009 11:46:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
06/29/2009 11:46:50 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
In some classes in school they let me listen to music
What?
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:06:23 PM PDT
by
rom
(Obama '12 slogan: Let's keep on hopin'!)
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:07:56 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: rom
They may as well—it’s not like the schools are teaching them anything useful anyway.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:09:30 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
My Sony Walkman is black. And I still have it. I don't know if the cassette player still works. I still have some cassettes in the basement.
I mostly use it to listen to AM radio, which is great because the batteries last practically forever, well past the point that you could hear a cassette. Heavy for the job, but I like the feel of it.
It's my third walkman. My first was actually a no-name brand (yellow) and my second was a Sony with a 3-band graphic equalizer, making it just bulky enough and heavy enough that no one in the mailroom wanted to borrow it unless they had no other choice. (College job on Wall street).
The headphones are long gone. And the belt clip broke off one day while it was on my belt. And the cassette door has its problems. But I aint ready to get rid of it yet. My wife is used to it. I leave it by the door and she doesn't complain that it's there. It's my "walking music" for trips to the store.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:11:13 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
To: ShadowAce
My friends couldn't imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing was and how it worked. Geez, you should've seen what they were walking around with just a few short years before the Walkman. They were still around when the walkman arrived.
This might give you an idea:
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:15:30 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
To: ShadowAce
I tried selling a Magnavox Walkman at our church yard sale last year...still have it along with my college slide-rules(they didn’t sell either).
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06/29/2009 12:18:17 PM PDT
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crazyhorse691
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To: Tanniker Smith
I thought I was the only one who kept their old walkman. I also use mine for AM radio. I love to go walking and listen to Rush, or Mark Levin, or Dennis Miller.
Makes the time pass and you burn a lot of calories.
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06/29/2009 12:25:41 PM PDT
by
AnnGora
(Does this tagline make me look fat?)
To: ShadowAce
Come on kid, get with the program:
To: ShadowAce
While may cassette-player-equipped car still works, I’m working thru my tape collection one last time and tossing each when finished (save for a few gems to digitize).
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:31:58 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(John Galt was exiled.)
To: ShadowAce
Cassettes? Feh! They'll never catch on.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:32:00 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: ShadowAce
Young whippersnappers. Why, I had to tote a Gramophone around, two of 'em if I wanted stereo, and had to stop every couple of blocks to rewind 'em so Enrico Caruso wouldn't start sounding like Barry White. But you know what? It was good enough for us!
To: Tanniker Smith
I had a Sports walkman, bright yellow, with a flip-top lid with little gaskets around the edge to seal it up and be ‘water-resistant’.
I still recall mowing the lawn and listening to Pyromania on that thing. Till it ate my tape.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:35:35 PM PDT
by
Betis70
(Keep working serf, Zero's in charge)
To: Betis70
I had a Sports walkman, bright yellow, with a flip-top lid with little gaskets around the edge to seal it up and be water-resistant. I still recall mowing the lawn and listening to Pyromania on that thing.
Was in high school doing the exact same thing. Loved that walkman, till it ate my tapes.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:39:17 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Out of gas become a pill box, Out of ammo become a bunker, Out of hope become a hero.)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Please don't try to pass airport security carrying one of these vintage 8-track portables in place of your iPod. Check the color choices available; detonator red, bomb blue, or explosion yellow!
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:40:15 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: AnnGora
i have a black walkman i use when i bike. radio and cassette works and i have a bunch of new age, soundtrack, and classical tapes in the basement, as well as some books on tap. they still play. also have a portable cd player i got from goodwill for $5. i may start using that to listen to books on cd while i stationary bike.
To: crazyhorse691
along with my college slide-rules(they didnt sell either). Might be collectible, some are still valued, I'd check eBay or craigslist before I tossed them.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:46:29 PM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Centurion2000
>>Loved that walkman, till it ate my tapes.
I recall having to run the cassette cleaner on it once a week otherwise it turned into Rosie on a seefood diet.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:51:58 PM PDT
by
Betis70
(Keep working serf, Zero's in charge)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Had one of those. Couldn’t use it. Skipped while I walked. Used it in my car once or twice but it was too much of a distraction while driving.
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posted on
06/29/2009 12:53:30 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
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