who hear remembers walkmans?

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i remember as a kid listening to a walkman.

I used to ride the bus, and go to the zoo, and sketch for art class, with a walkman player.

I had one that I listened to on the ride home from school & after I got out of high-school while waiting for my parents to pick me up.

Me! Mine was a Sony with a cassette player. It was cool! No ear plugs - headphones with foam padding.

That was the one I had

They're supposed to be making a comeback along with cassettes. I don't miss cassettes or VCR tapes at all.

I had one when I was really little. I used to have it with calming music to listen to before bedtime. I know it is still around my house somewhere.

I totally do. I remember how cool i thought the one with the digital tuner and mechanism that you didn't have to take the tape out to flip it was. I used to love making mix tapes. And the cheap headphones always broke at the part where it plugged in...

Then I got my first discman and remember walking around with a backpack full of jewel cases banging around. And I thought there was no way it'd get any better...

I saw this cassette comeback and I dont get it. Vinyl makes sense because it does give a discernibly different sound that some people swear by. The large jackets are cool and collectible and the vinyl itself often looks cool... so I can see it. But cassettes were just crappy. They sounded bad, wore out easily, and the player often would decide to eat the tape and it'd get all wrinkled and sound even worse...

They're awful and have no practical value. It's just for nostalgia, which can be cool, but not such a sh***y thing.

I personally never had one of my own, but several people in the family had them. My dad had a couple that he let my younger brother and I use (not sure if they were genuine Walkman players or just portable cassette players), because we had a large collection of books on tape, including Paddington Bear, Thundercats, Goldilocks, and SuperTed. I remember that battery life was not great due to the moving parts and technology of the time.

Many years later, I got an MP3 player when they started coming out - hear a song on the radio, grab it off of Napster, download it to the player and listen to it whenever I like. Now with smartphones with hundreds of gigabytes of storage, dedicated MP3 players (as well as portable tape and CD players) have largely become obsolete.

My Dad had one of the original 80s Walkmans. It had those little earphones with the orange foam and took a million batteries to work. It was huge compared to the castle player I had in the 90s.

Mmmmm walkman... Yeah, I had one of those. Loved it.

I loved making mix tapes too. That would keep me busy for hours.

LOL....I was too broke to afford a Walkman. In the 80s, I didn't even have a TV in my apartment.

Walkman? never owned one, but had lots of reel to reel and 8 track and cassette tapes, that was before I went to CD's and computers. god now I am starting to feel old.

I had a Sony Walkman with radio and I would always have it on megabass. Yet it didn't really add much base as much as just make it sound deeper. It was bought for me as an alternative to the discman as it was lighter. I listened to a lot of UK Garage on it when I was 13.

I still have a Sony Discman, and use it sometimes. It was bought for me for my 9th birthday. I actually take good care of a lot of items I own, and did as a kid. I remember my first album was Space Jam and I played it repeatedly. I can't remember much about the film, but the sound track was great. I also remember playing Now 36 on it at the time. My favourite tunes were George Michael - Spinning the wheel and Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity.