this was the REAL "walman" here :

[img:$uid]http://1968god.ru/files/images/Jvc%20RC-M70L.jpg[/img:$uid]

Like Raheem in "Do The Right Thing" ("12 Dee size batteries, MF'er...DEEEE!")

Timmy84 said:

Never owned one. Oh well lol

you are too young to be sooooo old.

SoulAlive said:

JamFanHot said:

Death of a format...always nice for a moment of nostalgia. Had to dig up MY relic from '85..kinda the Ferrari of Walkmen @ the time (still works):

[img:$uid]http://tos-k.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_248/tos-k/AIWA_HS-J400.jpg[/img:$uid]

I wanted one of these

eBay

TD3 said:

SoulAlive said:

I wanted one of these

eBay

I received my first Sony Walkman along with my first cassette tape: Bobby Brown "Don't Be Cruel" album...in 1988...I was 6 years old. I received a newer one in 1990 or 1991 I believe either my 8th or 9th birthday and that was along with the MC Hammer album "Please Hammer Don't Hurt'em" cassette tape. I still have the latter walkman, it's at my mother's house I believe...that is if she hasn't thrown it out. Still have the Bobby Brown tape, tossed the Hammer one when he sold out.

[Edited 10/26/10 5:28am]

Yeah I had a couple of Walkman's in my life Loved em

JamFanHot said:

this was the REAL "walman" here :

[img:$uid]http://1968god.ru/files/images/Jvc%20RC-M70L.jpg[/img:$uid]

Like Raheem in "Do The Right Thing" ("12 Dee size batteries, MF'er...DEEEE!")

The ORIGINAL Walkman!!

JamFanHot said:

this was the REAL "walman" here :

[img:$uid]http://1968god.ru/files/images/Jvc%20RC-M70L.jpg[/img:$uid]

Like Raheem in "Do The Right Thing" ("12 Dee size batteries, MF'er...DEEEE!")

I still have my JVC boombox. Lol................still sound good 2.

TD3 said:

Timmy84 said:

Never owned one. Oh well lol

you are too young to be sooooo old.

Well excuse me, when I was COMING UP...I saw cassette players.

Timmy84 said:

TD3 said:

you are too young to be sooooo old.

Well excuse me, when I was COMING UP...I saw cassette players.

You don't eveeeeeeeeeen like mp3 players, who are you foolin'?

&

you are excused . . nice to see some young adults with manners.

JamFanHot said:

this was the REAL "walman" here :

[img:$uid]http://1968god.ru/files/images/Jvc%20RC-M70L.jpg[/img:$uid]

Like Raheem in "Do The Right Thing" ("12 Dee size batteries, MF'er...DEEEE!")

Hell yeah! I used to have this one.....

That damn thing could thump too!

vainandy said:

JamFanHot said:

this was the REAL "walman" here :

[img:$uid]http://1968god.ru/files/images/Jvc%20RC-M70L.jpg[/img:$uid]

Like Raheem in "Do The Right Thing" ("12 Dee size batteries, MF'er...DEEEE!")

Hell yeah! I used to have this one.....

That damn thing could thump too!

I had a small one. And I had big boom box envy.

shite, I never got a "Walkman". I had a Walkman wannabe.

you know, {stating to feel indignant}

I am starting to feel deprived... I never got a Walkman. I have never even seen a real Walkman in person before. I think my parents should have bought me a dayum Walkman back in the day!

Oh, and now I am really getting pissed since the Walman was release on my 13th birthday. What the hell???!!!! Why couldn't they get me a Walman???

[Edited 10/26/10 21:22pm]

vainandy said:

SoulAlive said:

I think I still have a cassette walkman somewhere in my closet

I don't have one anymore but I still have my very first Polaroid One Step Camera. Remember, the white one with the little rainbow strip down the front and you would put a strip of five flashbulbs on top of it? I doubt they even still make film or the flashbulb strip for it anymore but I found it in a closet when I moved and kept it in case it was a collector's item or something.

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[Edited 10/25/10 14:43pm]

Y'all were some SPOILED crumb snatchers! I never had a freakin Polaroid camera. I had those old Kodak with the 110 film and the flash cube. Man, what the hell???!!!!

They spent all their dayum, money on freakin private schools, they didn't have any left for the IMPORTANT things.

Timmy84 said:

HuMpThAnG said:

http://prince.org/msg/8/346042

I don't know why when I click on shit, it always goes to some archival shit from 2008 or something.

I thought it was just me.

One of my first walkmans didn't have a reverse function.

Only play, stop and ffwd.

So to rewind you had to flip over the tape and ffwd. Turn it back to the other side and play.

TD3 said:

Timmy84 said:

Well excuse me, when I was COMING UP...I saw cassette players.

You don't eveeeeeeeeeen like mp3 players, who are you foolin'?

&

you are excused . . nice to see some young adults with manners.

prodigalfan said:

I had those old Kodak with the 110 film and the flash cube. Man, what the hell???!!!!

YES! I had one of those!!! It's been DECADES since I even THOUGHT about that camera!!!

Looked something like this, right?;

You had to buy a pack of those flash cubes.

Hey...anyone else had one of those Disc cameras???

I had one. Lent it out to a friend, who lost it.

Somewhere I have one of those discs lying around...

Your camera was the NEW one... Here is MY camera. How embarrassing.

and your stereo looked like this...

[img:$uid]http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/tricky2_2007/vinAd79Pioneer.jpg[/img:$uid]

this was my original walkman... The Loud Mouth!!

[img:$uid]http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/tricky2_2007/020906094034.jpg[/img:$uid]

I had no idea they even still made these.

I never had a Sony Walkman. The closest I had was a Toshiba equivalent in the late '80s/early '90s. Equalized properly, that thing had extraordinary sound quality.

Bulldog said:

and your stereo looked like this...

[img:$uid]http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/tricky2_2007/vinAd79Pioneer.jpg[/img:$uid]

Mine still looks like that, but not the same brand and I don't have a reel to reel player. My receiver is from 1979 or 1980, the cassette deck is from the late 1980's & the turntable is from 1991. I made it up to a CD changer from the late 1990's. I never got into anything past that. I've never downloaded and I still buy music from the record stores where I live. They still carry records, but since most modern albums are longer, the newer releases are generally double. The one I usually go to even sells picture discs & vinyl remix 12" singles.

PurpleJedi said:

Back in High School I dished out over $100 (quite a bit of money for me at the time) for the waterproof "sports" walkman...

...MAN, did I think I was the SHIT strutting around with that at the beach!

And btw Tony, I still have some of my cassettes with music that I'd recorded from the radio. One of my favorite songs of all time ("Bajio" by Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco) I first taped off the radio back in college. I spent the next decade trying to find that song on an album, with no success. When I first got internet, one of the first things that I did was log onto mymusic.com to try to buy the track (to no avail). Finally about 5 years ago I found it on Bearshare and downloaded it.

In all that while, I still had my tape.

I had that one!

bboy87 said:

PurpleJedi said:

Back in High School I dished out over $100 (quite a bit of money for me at the time) for the waterproof "sports" walkman...

...MAN, did I think I was the SHIT strutting around with that at the beach!

And btw Tony, I still have some of my cassettes with music that I'd recorded from the radio. One of my favorite songs of all time ("Bajio" by Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco) I first taped off the radio back in college. I spent the next decade trying to find that song on an album, with no success. When I first got internet, one of the first things that I did was log onto mymusic.com to try to buy the track (to no avail). Finally about 5 years ago I found it on Bearshare and downloaded it.

In all that while, I still had my tape.

I had that one!

Let's put on our clamshell Addidas with Fat Laces!

Bulldog said:

and your stereo looked like this...

[img:$uid]http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/tricky2_2007/vinAd79Pioneer.jpg[/img:$uid]

that's a big @$$ record player

Shango said:

that's a big @$$ record player

Not really. Now these are big.

$300,000 Goldmund’s Reference II

$150,000 Basis Audio’s ‘Work of Art’ turntable

$90,000-$112,000 Continuum Caliburn

$40,000 Proscenium Black Diamond Turntable

$19,000 TEAC’s VPI HR-X1 turntable

$12,990 ELP Laser Turntable

MickyDolenz said:

Shango said:

that's a big @$$ record player

Not really. Now these are big.

$300,000 Goldmund’s Reference II

$150,000 Basis Audio’s ‘Work of Art’ turntable

$90,000-$112,000 Continuum Caliburn

$40,000 Proscenium Black Diamond Turntable

$19,000 TEAC’s VPI HR-X1 turntable

$12,990 ELP Laser Turntable

the promised land

Apparently there's no cover, so how do you keep dust from getting in it? For 150 grand, they should of thought of that.