walkman: do you still have/use one?

yeah i used to have one back when i was in high school. and the other problem back then was the battery. when you listen to your tapes too long, battery runs out (rechargeable batteries are not yet practical back then) and that's the end of happy sound trip for the day. Sound tripping will resume the next day once we already got our daily allowance (so we can buy another pair of batteries). Hehe... really fun stuff to remember.

I felt so excited when my mum took me to buy my first walkman. I was only a kid so I thought they were the coolest thing out. Then along came the personal CD player, and even that pales in comparison to the ipod and mp3 players you can get now.

Makes you wonder how we will feel about these in a few years time.

I don't have a cassette player now, but my dad still has his cassette player. My brother got him an mp3 and we keep downloading music that he likes, but he still prefers his walkman. He says he finds it easier to use.

I never really owned the Walkman in particular, but had a Panasonic tape player and loved it. I saved up and bought it and always had a ton of blank tapes. I took it to school and everyone else had some basic tape player, mine ruled. Dolby control, auto reverse, logic control (tape equilvant of changing tracks, it found the next song and played). Two FM memory bands on a digital tuner. It took a minute to work the auto reverse at first because that was new at the time. This tape player was a beast. Always bought the largest pack of AA batteries (Duracells, my baby deserved the best). Everywhere I went, it went also. Alas, it would be my last tape player when I played it until the motors could not turn the tape anymore. It was a very dark day. I made do with portable CD players, but without shock protection, they weren't much. Then the iPod came, and filled that void left by the tape player. Thanks, Mr. Jobs.

I used to have one, but with the move I do not know where it is.
I stop using it because the batteries went quick and I broke to many cassettes. That plus cassettes are not for sale where I live.

i still have a walkman here and its still working! i still have lots of tapes around, i use it sometimes.