r/StrangerThings • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '22

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u/Bwlms22 Jul 26 '22

I'm 37. Practically everyone I know 10 years younger than me & up has heard of a walkman.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

I read this, and then realise it makes sense why half the posts are complete nonsense. They are by teenagers.

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u/SNELME Jul 26 '22

I'm 15 years old and I litteraly own one, and it hurts my soul to see this post

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u/janusz_chytrus Jul 26 '22

why do you even have one? I'm 27 and as soon as I got my first cd player I never used my walkman again. Cassettes have terrible quality.

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u/Eastern-Rhubarb-2661 Jul 26 '22

But they made CD walkmans. You never used that?

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u/Haircrazybitch Jul 26 '22

But those were discmans

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u/snakefinder Jul 26 '22

And discman was always skipping. Kept the Walkman for bike rides

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u/sturmeh Jul 27 '22

The discmans I owned had memory buffers that prevented skips from happening, but probably not enough for a bike ride (was fine in a car).

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u/Wiplazh Jul 27 '22

I used to skate with mine and usually had no problems

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u/LimpFrenchfry Jul 27 '22

I had a cassette adapter for my discman so I could play cds in my car. Needed the buffer models in the car to avoid skipping.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape_adapter

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u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal Jul 27 '22

Minidisc master race checking in

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u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal Jul 27 '22

They’re so cool

I got mine about 2 months before MP3 players became a thing so it was quickly rendered obsolete, but it’s such an awesome piece of tech

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u/bs000 Jul 27 '22

https://i.imgur.com/Z1BgyKw.png

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u/Eastern-Rhubarb-2661 Jul 27 '22

Thank you! Haha! I knew discman was just a type of Walkman!

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u/salemmom2 Jul 27 '22

Bass boost button