Goodbye dear Walkman, goodbye

[mix]

After 31 years and over 200 million units sold, Sony is officially putting the cassette model Walkman out to pasture. Introduced in 1979, the portable tape player defined the following 10-plus years of mobile music playback.
http://www.switched.com/2010/10/22/sony-walkman-dead-in-japan-we-pour-one-out-for-the-cas/

I bought my first Walkman around '83 in Barcelona. I also got a cool set of external speakers for the device along with the headset. I remember listening to a lot of Madness and Clash on it at the time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Well, I can understand from a business sense, but it's a bit sad. :^(

[Kat45]

2. I didn't know they still made them.

[alphafemale]

7. Seriously. Is anything even recorded onto cassettes anymore?

Cassette tapes were probably one of the worst music modes ever.

Couldn't easily find and play a single song. Music quality degraded every time you played it.

[Kaleva]

3. Would listen to Bob Seger and Blondie with a walkman while doing field work

[trackfan]

4. Oddly enough, it still seems like new technology to me.

I never had one.

[Aristus]

5. I remember back in 1983-84, the coolest thing in school was to be seen

wearing those feather-light headphones around your neck. Sitting in class, walking down the hall, if you had those headphones, you were cool.

Then my high school cracked down on Walkman owners. The Assistant Principal would confiscate headphones and tape-players from anyone sporting the 'phones around his neck.

I didn't know Sony was still making them. I would have thought production ceased about 1993 or so...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. You could take up to 90 minutes of music with you wherever you went!

Oh.

I see.

:eyes:

Used to own one. Loved it like everyone else did at the time.

[Arugula Latte]

8. WTF? They didn't stop making them 15 years ago or more?1

:wow:

[progressoid]

9. Damn. 1982, walking across campus, Walkman, a black trench coat with the collar turned up,

8 or 10 tapes in the backpack.

Sigh.