For those who use iPods and other digital music players: Remember this?

[bertha katzenengel]

The first Walkman!

[Hugin]

1. Sweet!

I wanted one of those for years! I first saw one an Australian exchange student
had.

[bertha katzenengel]

2. yep, me too - lust for electronics, who knew?

:hi:

[4morewars]

3. I had one !

It was back when dinosaurs roamed the earth !

:hi:

[progmom]

4. i just had to have one that would rewind, not just ffwd

those cost more, you know. ;)

[Hugin]

6. Were they bigger too?

The first one I saw was so close to the size of a cassette tape.

The small size of it was what impressed me the most.

[no name no slogan]

5. My best friend in junior high had one of those

I remember that you could record on it through the built-in microphone-- a feature most of the knock-offs didn't have at the time.

I think I may have a casette walkman around the house somewhere... I practicall lived off mine in college. Ah memories...

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Sure do.

Although my first one was a Toshiba which had a special cassette to put in and you had FM Radio, too:



The next one (still functioning!) was a Sony:

[ps1074]

8. Whoa - I used to have exactly the same toshiba

I had forgotten about it. I can't remember what happened to it though :(

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Mine broke occasionally when I still was a teen.

The good thing about them was you could plug in two headphone sets. And then - remember - you could press the yellow button which activated an inbuilt mic and could have a conversation with your buddy still wearing the headphones.

They banned it from our high school, though.

[ps1074]

11. one more thing about the toshiba

It was much heavier than all the other models out there.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. That's true, almost twice the size.

But I remember it being also quite expensive. (Got mine on Christmas from my mom, along with every David Bowie and ELO albums.)

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Had One!

Just had to have it! It was such a huge step forward from anything prior. Wowie! A portable that actually sounds good! I probably got the third one sold at the Service Merchandise near our town.
The Professor

[Lavender Brown]

13. I had a bright yellow one. It was like, so rad.

:D

[hunter]

14. I still use mine sometimes.

Not the first I bought, but a more recent model.

Occassionally I'll need to convert something on a cassette to a digital file. My full sized cassette deck is long gone because it took up too much room and I rarely used it, but I can always plug my Walkman into the computer and get a pretty decent transfer.

I've also got a reel-to-reel tape recorder, turntable, an eight inch floppy drive, etc., etc., just because you never know what you might find. ;)