Do You Still Use A Walkman?

[alexstein]

OK... I've had (counts on fingers) 4 articles published in game magazines, as well as a chapter of a gaming module (this was all for an RPG called Traveller: 2300, back in the late 1980s)... I was set to write a complete 96 page module, but the company I was writing for changed their business plans and the project was shelved indefinitely. I also had an article published in a local Charlotte leisure magazine last year (I wrote that one for free).

Oh, and I wrote over 1,250 articles for Microsoft's Knowledge Base.

I'm a pretty good writer. (Note to all weisenheimers: I did not say VERY good or great... just pretty good.)

That's quite impressive! Keep it up! By the way I was just pulling your chain a little bit.

 

[jalagl]

Yes I do. I take it to work when there's a UEFA Championship League Game or a local soccer game to listen to it on radio.

I haven't used the tape in years, though. I use the iPod for all music.

 

[rendezvouscp]

The most interesting thing to me is that there is a generation that will never have used tape-based music players, and perhaps even CD players. I've rarely used any type of tape-player, and I used my alarm clock/CD player for a few years before I got the original iPod in 2002. I've actually never had a portable player other than the iPod.

There's something really weird about that. Really goes to show how much things have changed in the past decade.
-Chasen

 

[cycocelica]

I used to have a Sony Tape Walkman, that was years ago though but I still have it in my room. I got a CD player in 1998(?) and was considered hip in my neighborhood. Then I got some Audiovox MP3 player that could only hold 21 songs . What a joke. Then I heard about the iPod and knew I had to get one and be one of the first. So sure enough the day they were released my dad and I picked one up for both of us (granted he payed, i was just a child ). Still rockin the 1st gen iPod.

 

[Kernow]

The most interesting thing to me is that there is a generation that will never have used tape-based music players, and perhaps even CD players. I've rarely used any type of tape-player, and I used my alarm clock/CD player for a few years before I got the original iPod in 2002. I've actually never had a portable player other than the iPod.

There's something really weird about that. Really goes to show how much things have changed in the past decade.
-Chasen

It's an interesting point. When I was a teenager, tape was still very common - I didn't get a CD player until I was 14. I used to spend ages taping my favourite songs off the radio so that I could listen to them on the bus on the way too school. Now I wouldn't dream of using tape.

However, I'm now studying sound engineering, and am finding a lot of my lecturers are nostalgic for tape as a physical medium. I think they feel that something has been lost now that intangible digital recording is becoming the norm.

 

[Abstract]

You guys are lucky. I had the first line of prototype iPod Apple developed.

Jogging with it's a bitch, but I still use it once in a while.

 

[Blue Velvet]

so, raise your hand if you just felt really old when you read that I was four in 1992.

<raises hand>

But young (and wild) at heart.


I had a Walkman ripoff, I forget the brand, with added Pioneer headphones. What a pain it was carrying around all those tapes at the time.

 

[bartelby]

so, raise your hand if you just felt really old when you read that I was four in 1992.

That doesn't make me feel as old when I realised there are 23 year olds,in the UK, who have never seen/used a Pound note, all they'll have known are Pound coins!

 

[Chundles]

I can't remember when I used a cassette tape last.

like.. 1992?
and that was to record something off the radio?

heck yea, I used cassettes when I was four. I've never looked back!!

so, raise your hand if you just felt really old when you read that I was four in 1992.

Younger than my little sisters...... I do feel old. And I'm not that old. I was 10 in 1992 and had a Sony dual-deck tape player and radio. I used to tape music off the radio to make mix tapes and then if I was so inclined I'd mess around with the dubbing to make everyone sound like the chipmunks.

This was back when Michael Jackson was big, Black or White was being played every five minutes so when I played him back at high dubbing speed I couldn't hear it but all the dogs would start barking.

My family still has their first CD player - had all the bells and whistles when it came out, programmable track lists, EQ settings etc. It's a tank, huge, heavy and it just keeps going.

 

[0098386]

A Walkman is this ... A la 1979-80

wow! I don't know why but I love the look of that! Its like a tape version of my MZ-R91 minidisc player! hah. i honestly do like that.

tape? I used tape for a short while when I got into music. Actually for about 2 weeks I used my dads old walkman. expensive one too. was rubberised to be extra tough. but it broke by gran got me this metal one that lasted 3 days . Then I got a portable CD player. Goodmans it was. £60. brilliant machines portable CD players if a little bulky. Portable Sony Minidisc player/recorder costing a whopping £250 (top of the line I might add!) years later. best music player I've owned. traded it for an MP3 'tape' player. sold that to a mate. got a mini MP3 thumb-thingy player. 2 years later; iPod 3G 9 months later... iPod mini!

the end!

 

[Lau]

I used a tape Walkman until 2001. I was 21. Yeah, I'm cheap.

I missed the whole CD and MiniDisc era out completely, and went straight to mp3.