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Sigh - Another slice of yoof gone forever.
Mind you I see that Back to the Future is back at the Cinemas...
:(
Still have mine and it still works perfectly - I've got the WM-EX615 - was waaaay ahead of its time: its virtually the same dimensions as a cassette, had auto reverse so I didnt have to flip the tape over, had a skip to next / previous track (which at the time was simply awesome) AND a repeat button! Plus 60+ hours of battery life.
RIP cassette walkman's - you were a staple part of my teenage years :)
What the hell? Sony was still making them? I haven't even seen a personal CD player in years, much less a tape player.
I always thought that cassette players had been phased out years ago, I know they stopped selling the actual tapes about 5 or 6 years back.
I haven't seen either for sale for a while now. Although even if I did see one, I don't think I would notice.Quote:
Originally Posted by aidanjt
RIP Walkman...
I just looked an amazon, and Sony are the ONLY brand still available in portable cassette players,
and at £29.99 for a model without auto-reverse ?!
I'd say "end of an era", but I'm pretty sure that era finished 15 years ago :)
I thought they'd gone out with the ark ages ago ! I found my Aiwa (basically Sony) HSTX481 up in the loft the other day, not sure it works but I suspect it still does :)
I got one of these about 15-odd years ago
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Cass.../dp/B0020Z1MIW
great player and I still have it (somewhere!)
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I too thought they were already defunct. *Song comes to head* "We've got the funk" Ahhh Mighty Boosh, love it.]
But yea I thought this was already gone :s
Shame in a way, because it was an iconic product. In many ways, its the granddaddy of personal, portable players, and iPods, etc, all track back to it. But times change, and with the possible exception of a very small niche market, the technology is redundant. Having said that, there's a thriving market in LPs for audiophile analogue fans .... like me. ;)
But even I graduated from cassette Walkmans, to portable CD (which of necessity were bulkier and less convenient in many ways), and then to solid state players, years ago.
RIP cassette Walkmans. I'm sad to see you go ..... but not that sad.
Looking on the shelf in my room, I have an unopened twin pack of TDK-SA90 cassettes sitting there.
The minidisc looked as if it would kill the cassette, but that in turn was killed (apart from broadcast machines) by mp3 and the like.