A walkman? what in the hell is that.

Macfanforever · #1 07-01-2009, 07:27 PM

Would any of you like to trade your Ipod for a Sony walkman.
read on this link

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...KE7.DTL&nopu=1

I still have my Walkmans,I still have all my worn out StevieNicks/FM cassettes to play.

JWS · #2 07-01-2009, 07:47 PM

I remember the Walkmans. I thought how cool is this you could actually listen to music while jogging. Before this you had to carry around a big "boom" box. Remember those?

sara1998 · #3 07-01-2009, 08:53 PM

I remember boom boxes. I was pretty young though. There was a guy who would walk down our street everyday with that thing.

becca · #4 07-01-2009, 09:02 PM

I remember headphones with a built in radio which was before the walkman. I still don't have an ipod (or clone), I do have a CD Walkman I can put a disc of a couple hundred mp3s in and that's almost as good.

estranged4life · #5 07-01-2009, 11:00 PM

I owned a Sony walkman, that lasted me throughout high school (I wore it in classes 70% of the time) and college/tech school (Where I wore it 99.999999% of the time). I wished I could find some thing of a similar quality because "it took a lickin' and kept on tickin' "

Ipod? Never will own one...They dont make 'em large enough to hold my music collection.

LukeA · #6 07-01-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

Ipod? Never will own one...They dont make 'em large enough to hold my music collection.

That's nice, but did anyone say you needed to carry your entire music collection along with you portably?

rubytuesday · #7 07-01-2009, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by LukeA

That's nice, but did anyone say you needed to carry your entire music collection along with you portably?

I was going to say! Also, did the walkman hold all your music collection? The ipod is great for me but it definitely doesn't carry all my music, I wouldn't need that.

vivfox · #8 07-01-2009, 11:39 PM

It's funny because for the past few months I've been wishing I still owned a walkman. I want some good quality player to play all my cassettes. I'm terrified to buy any type of used tape recorder 'cause you know what will happen, don't cha?

They'll get chewed up!

Gypsy-Rhiannon · #9 07-02-2009, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

I owned a Sony walkman, that lasted me throughout high school (I wore it in classes 70% of the time) and college/tech school (Where I wore it 99.999999% of the time). I wished I could find some thing of a similar quality because "it took a lickin' and kept on tickin' "

Ipod? Never will own one...They dont make 'em large enough to hold my music collection.

HOw much music do you have? I'm nowhere near filling my ipod.

GODDESS6 · #10 07-02-2009, 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

I owned a Sony walkman, that lasted me throughout high school (I wore it in classes 70% of the time) and college/tech school (Where I wore it 99.999999% of the time). I wished I could find some thing of a similar quality because "it took a lickin' and kept on tickin' "

Ipod? Never will own one...They dont make 'em large enough to hold my music collection.

me either~ i still have my walkman that i had in highschool from the 80's~ i liked to hang the headphones around my neck & not actually over my ears~i can't stand things in my ears & not being able to hear what's going on around me~

my mom loves hers tho, she uses it at her desk daily~

jenniferuk · #11 07-02-2009, 07:38 AM

What a trip down memory lane...wish I'd held onto 1-2 of my old ones. I remember how cool the walkman was--it was a 'must have' to say the least. How great it was to walk round in headphones and ignore the parents, or at least let them think they were being ignored.

Love the ipod though---so much better than lugging those tapes/discs around.

sara1998 · #12 07-02-2009, 07:50 AM

I wouldn't trade my ipod for nothing!!!

rubytuesday · #13 07-02-2009, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by jenniferuk

What a trip down memory lane...wish I'd held onto 1-2 of my old ones. I remember how cool the walkman was--it was a 'must have' to say the least. How great it was to walk round in headphones and ignore the parents, or at least let them think they were being ignored.

Love the ipod though---so much better than lugging those tapes/discs around.

So much better sound quality to.

I think if your not happy with the amount of space you can get on an ipod then it's not the ipod that's the problem! I have more than the space on mine. My boyfriend reviews music and we have every possible artist on cd given for free, there's too many that we can't store them, but who would honestly want to carry that much? It's like its cool to say you don't like ipods to be different from most people.

JWS · #14 07-02-2009, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by jenniferuk

What a trip down memory lane...wish I'd held onto 1-2 of my old ones. I remember how cool the walkman was--it was a 'must have' to say the least. How great it was to walk round in headphones and ignore the parents, or at least let them think they were being ignored.

Love the ipod though---so much better than lugging those tapes/discs around.

Yeah, we were really "modern" then. To think you could walk around with head phones not plugged into anything. Cell phones and iPods were beyond imagination. Even the PC was primitive..no hard drive.

becca · #15 07-02-2009, 01:37 PM

I will probably upgrade to an ipod at some point, but the CD Walkman can plug into car radios and other things so I wouldn't hand it over either. A little volume stick thing with a screen tells you the song and artist etc. I got this second or maybe even third-hand and it's worked great for six years now. Maybe I'm more of an album oriented person though.