wanna feel old

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Facing out.

JC

Well that depends. Some of them would go in reverse so you didn't even need to flip it.

James

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

it was in the instruction manual for the player.

I had one of the first Sony Walkman models with the digital tuning and the 5 memory buttons (10 saved channels total): WM-FX41. I rarely used the casette because it ate batteries like crazy.

I used that thing for probably about 15 years and I still have it in a box in the garage... the corners are all worn off and such but it still works like a charm... went through headphones like water though

I was always hooking my headphones on desks in school and ripping the cord off. But I couldn't kill the player. That think worked great until someone stole it in high school.

James

[Avatard]

My parents came back with an original Walkman from Japan, a full year before it was released here.

It got quite old, and a bit ragged, but I realized how significant it probably was, so, before it was all "used up", I cleaned it up, and put it away. I still have it, and while I haven't used it in probably twenty-some years, I believe it probably still works.

Wonder what an original piece like that is even worth...

[unknownroad]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Better story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

At 13 years old, the kid writes better than half the Associated Press staff these days

Now if you really want to blow a kid's mind, show him some of the portable electric "word processors" from the late 80's/early 90's... a fine example of technology tripping all over itself on haphazard, fucked-up hardware.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Avatard

My parents came back with an original Walkman from Japan, a full year before it was released here.

It got quite old, and a bit ragged, but I realized how significant it probably was, so, before it was all "used up", I cleaned it up, and put it away. I still have it, and while I haven't used it in probably twenty-some years, I believe it probably still works.

Wonder what an original piece like that is even worth...

I had one of the original Rockman's.

It totally fucked my hearing up,( it goes to 11!) but at the time, I thought it was just about the coolest thing ever invented.

JC

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by unknownroad

At 13 years old, the kid writes better than half the Associated Press staff these days

Right? That was my take. The Brits are apparently still teaching their kids "little shit" like reading and writing...

[Captain Morgan]

Wow, this thread brings back memories. Reel to real, 8 track, boomboxes...holy crap, I feel old now.

[zed]

I didn't have the tapes for it but I was given a portable reel to reel when I was a kid, pretty sure it was before my teens. never did find any tapes in the small town I lived in, don't even know why the person that gave it to me had it without any tapes to give me too.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by zed

I didn't have the tapes for it but I was given a portable reel to reel when I was a kid, pretty sure it was before my teens. never did find any tapes in the small town I lived in, don't even know why the person that gave it to me had it without any tapes to give me too.

I think you just answered you own question.

JC

[zed]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

I think you just answered you own question.

JC

probably.