It was thrity years ago this week

[kestrell]

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.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

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.

[kestrell]

I liked that bit also, but my thought was "Hey, there *should* be a toggle switch like that!" It reminded me of Daniel Pinkwater's novel _Lizard Music_ (approximation).