Reply to: Them were the days, the Sony WalkPerson

[ctdctd]

Not quite a Walkman, but when I were a lad, I had a Saturday job in a Radio & TV shop.

Was seduced by one of these in the shop window and paid for it at a pound a week out of my wages



After poly, I worked in electronics designing and manufacturing speed measuring instruments among other things.
A panel mount tachometer / counter sold for about £100 - cost about £40 to make.

I once purchased a £5 walkman clone from Asda to see how they could sell it for that. Bill of materials from the likes of RS came to £20 before I even started to think about the plastic bits!

[Cliphead]

I had a summer job in a Glasgow music / hifi shop and it turned out we had the first Walkman in Scotland. A whole day dealing with the press and the BBC doing articles, trying it out etc. It was a big deal at the time.

[darmstadt]

I had an Aiwa one, it was pretty damn good until I decided to investigate the internals:

[Sysman]

The 2nd one I bought was sommat similar to this:

File:Sony Walkman WM A602.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

It was beautifully engineered & ran off a single cell.

Autoreverse too, so dual capstan.

Ooh I 'ad one like that.

It got me through many a train journey with my sanity reasonably intact.

[DirtyDog]

[DirtyDog]

I could only ever afford the dixons/currys own brand ones - Matsui were they called?

did a job though except for when the batteries got slightly less than full the tape player started to go slower and slower....

which was annoying.

oh and also the fact that they ate tapes on a regular basis - especially the cheap C90's used for taping the charts off the rasio.

+1

And the front cover of mine fell off, so you ran the risk that the tape would try to fall out while playing it.

It was a fine art quickly working out whether the tape was slurring because the batteries were low or because it was being chewed up.

[original PM]

not sure what type of film the girl in the purple thinks she is in?

I think you are.....

[vetran]

not sure what type of film the girl in the purple thinks she is in?

[barrydidit]

also the fact that they ate tapes on a regular basis - especially the cheap C90's used for taping the charts off the rasio.

That was to stop you being brainwashed by peado DJ's

[SimonMac]

thanks, you've just ruined my morning.

hth bidi ttfn

[DodgyAgent]

[Mich the Tester]

<picture of that bloody awful Cliff>

Thanks, you've just ruined my morning.

[SimonMac]

[original PM]

I could only ever afford the dixons/currys own brand ones - Matsui were they called?

did a job though except for when the batteries got slightly less than full the tape player started to go slower and slower....

which was annoying.

oh and also the fact that they ate tapes on a regular basis - especially the cheap C90's used for taping the charts off the rasio.

[mudskipper]

Got one in a drawer in the bedroom. Dunno if it's an early model.