[rom]

In some classes in school they let me listen to music

What?

[ShadowAce]

[Tanniker Smith]

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.

[Tanniker Smith]

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:

[crazyhorse691]

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).

[martin_fierro]

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[the_devils_advocate_666]

Come on kid, get with the program:

[ctdonath2]

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).

[KarlInOhio]

Cassettes? Feh! They'll never catch on.

[Billthedrill]

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!

[mysterio]

I have a tape deck, cd player, record player, and an 8 track player. Just got my first ipod as a gift. I like it. Have to admit, it’s a fine bit of technology.

[antiRepublicrat]

You could even freak them out with this.

The Sony Discman D10 from the mid 80s. I had one, made of metal, almost a pound without a battery. The battery was half as thick as the player and weighed even more. The player attached on top of the battery, and the shoulder strap (no belt hook for this) attached to the battery.

[Mediocrates]

Reading this made me realize what a teenaged elitist I was. My Aiwa was better than a mere Walkman.

[RansomOttawa]

My friends couldn't imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing was and how it worked.

Still got one myself. Rarely use it since I bought an iPod, but a) my iPod doesn't play radio, and b) I need something to play all those hundreds of tapes I bought in the 80s as a teenager.