Well, I guess it is about time, but I would have to say my Sony yellow Sports Walkman
was a joy to own back in the late 80s/early 90s. I got a hell of a lot of use out of it. I
am even embarassed to admit that I still have a box of cassette tapes in my basement from all
my favorite music back then. Kind of a time capsule of sorts for me. Any memories of your
walkman way back when?


(Mashable) -- After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player.

The final batch was shipped to Japanese retailers in April, according to IT Media. Once these units are sold, new cassette Walkmans will no longer be available through the manufacturer.

The first generation Walkman (which was called the Soundabout in the U.S., and the Stowaway in the UK) was released on July 1, 1979 in Japan.

Although it later became a huge success, it only sold 3,000 units in its first month. Sony managed to sell some 200 million iterations of the cassette Walkman over the product line's 30-year career.

Somewhat ironically, the announcement was delivered just one day ahead of the iPod's ninth anniversary on October 23, although the decline of the cassette Walkman is attributed primarily to the explosive popularity of CD players in the '90s, not the iPod.

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Not dead...evolved

Who was buying a walkman in the last 10-15 years?

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JORR

i still have one from '04 when i bought it to listen to AM radio, and i still had a slew of cassette tapes i could play. i still have it somewhere. haven't used it in a few years.

Good question. Maybe people were using them for AM/FM like W_Z mentioned.
Maybe there is an underground market for my tapes after all...

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I honestly didn't know they still made Walkman Cassette players anymore. Hell I don't even see portable disk players in stores anymore

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"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."

+1

I was watching The Boondock Saints the other night, and watching Willam Dafoe with the Discman attached to his belt was hilarious.

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Sony has a long history of inventing a superior product and then slowly letting itself be overtaken.

Betamax
Walkman
Playstation

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I like the small radio only walkman. I use it for running. It can take a beating when I roll on the ground with heart palpitations after the third block.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

You've always been one of my favorites, BRick

I just watched this again the other day and each time I see it I like it less and less. I need to stop watching it before I actually hate it.

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I say the same thing about your posts.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I just watched Boondock Saints II a couple weeks ago. Terrible. Most pointless sequel ever.

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real talk, t-bone, was that shit coming in one ear? that always happens with sony products... i've been on these walkman SRT-M37Vs for a few years... basically they're a little AM/FM radio with weatherband shit that i use for radio usage, and invariably at some point they always come in one ear. this last one (and it might be the last one since i haven't seen the M37Vs around for a minute... i used to keep 2 or 3 around) still allows me to jiggle the headphones and occasionally get two ear performance. that's a lot for sony products, especially given their fondness for "planned obsolesce" which came out around the time of the PS1, that sony loves it when they give you a really quality product that craps out so you run out and buy another one.

in your honor i drop this link (which isn't as good as the studio version but can what you do?) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHxqd5ts5s

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Same here. Got plenty of use out of mine in the '90s. You done good ole yeller.

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

I agree and use it for the same purpose.

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Couldn't sleep tonight so I went looking for my old box of tapes. It appears that I
tossed them out the last time that I cleaned out the basement. I was kind of looking
forward to finding all my old hip hop stuff. All that I came up with was an old mix tape
I made and a copy of Henry Rollins' Get In The Van which is pretty interesting. Oh well.
Even if I'd found them I have no way of playing the tapes anyway.

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you fell asleep to henry rollins? that's somethin else.

his poetry and books are perfect high school reading

Yeah, I still have a handful of his books and some of his spoken word stuff is
outstanding. He is a great story teller. Saw him do a spoken word performance
once at the Vic. You are right though, I was into him late in high school and
a year or two at junior college and then fizzled out.

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