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Kestrell ([personal profile] kestrell) wrote2009-08-14 04:43 pm

It was thrity years ago this week

that the Walkman came out, but it's taken only a handful of years for it to become seriously antiquated--check out this
article written by an iPod kid who used a Walkman for a week
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm
My favorite bit is when he mentions that it took him a week to realize that tapes had two sides to them.
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2009-08-14 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Oh!

This bit
 begin quote  I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette. quote ends 
put me in stitiches because I thought the same thing, 27 years ago.