Happy 30th Birthday Sony Walkman !

Ponster

An interesting little read from the BBC....

mike65

Pure sex

Run_to_da_hills

I still got one of these monsters, the WMD6C model, it cost over £300 at the time :eek:
took it into a pub not too long ago for the laugh.

gipi

I was a cheapskate (:)), I had a Ferguson brand "personal stereo"...still kicking about somewhere the house I think!

K-Ren

Those were the days, I still have a lot of my tapes, including The Simpsons Sing The Blues!

crosstownk

I remember heading into town at 5am to get a Walkman for IR£1 at the beginning of a sale in Harry Moore's in Dawson St. There were 50 on offer with batteries!

Goolay

I had one of these bad boys for years and years:



Think I still have it somewhere actually!

Ponster

gipi wrote: »

I was a cheapskate (:)), I had a Ferguson brand "personal stereo"...still kicking about somewhere the house I think!

I once had a Ferguson too but at the time I didn't know it wasn't a Walkman. I always used the term 'Walkman' to mean 'portable, personal stereo' though I chastise my dad now when uses 'ipod' to mean portable mp3 player.

Firetrap

Back in 1986 nearly every kid in my class used their confirmation money to buy a walkman in the local shop. I think they were selling them for £20 at the time. I can't remember what brand I bought first but it was a bulky enough thing and it wasn't a Sony. I did own a couple of Sony Walkmans later on when I was a student. The big problem with all of them was that after a while the socket for the headphone jack would go. :mad:


This looks suspiciously like the last Walkman I owned in the mid 1990s.

Run_to_da_hills

Dublin579 wrote: »

I had one of these bad boys for years and years:



Think I still have it somewhere actually!

I had a similar model in in 1984 except it was black, paid over 100 quid STG for itr on Tottinham Ct Road London, it stopped working after 6 months, me like an idiot ripped it apart to try and fix it and infringed the warranty. Binned it after that,

ntlbell

Firetrap wrote: »

Back in 1986 nearly every kid in my class used their confirmation money to buy a walkman in the local shop. I think they were selling them for £20 at the time. I can't remember what brand I bought first but it was a bulky enough thing and it wasn't a Sony. I did own a couple of Sony Walkmans later on when I was a student. The big problem with all of them was that after a while the socket for the headphone jack would go. :mad:


This looks suspiciously like the last Walkman I owned in the mid 1990s.

I had this one too, wish I could remember how much it cost at the time.

fantastic bit of kit! auto-reverse :eek::eek::eek:

Firetrap

I think I paid forty-something pounds for it sometime in the early to mid 1990s.

120_Minutes

sugarman wrote: »

i had one of them too. but then i traded up:

my dad worked in an electrical shop and they got in a model by mistake, i was told at the time that sony never released in ireland (which is believeable as i never saw one before or since) it was greyish blue, was the same size as a cassete box and a bit thicker, had no radio, and the earphones were hard wired into it and wound up when you werent using it, it also had a spare earphone jack, auto reverse, dolby and ran on 1 AA or the flat sony rechargable.

sadly it worked 10% of the time and i went back to my old one. i'd love to know what model it was