Pocket Calculator’s Vintage Sony Walkman Museum
I never owned a Sony Walkman. I wanted one really bad, but I was too poor to afford one. I had a Emerson tape player instead and it lasted me years before it finally started eating tapes. Looking at the photos of these old Sony Walkman’s didn’t make me feel nostalgic until I saw this one:
Those boxes were more familiar to me than anything else. I remember looking at the packaging inside the locked glass cases at K-Mart and wishing I could afford one. In junior high, the Walkman was the cool thing to have. Just like the white earbuds now, the Walkman DEFINED cool.
You can see more photos here:
Pocket Calculator makes a point:
We owe much gratitude to Sony, for they were responsible for making the personal stereo cassette player a reality.
As cool as iPod is now, Sony Walkmans were when I was a young teen. What happened, Sony? Why do you hate me now. EVERY product that you have released lately has been “meh…” Reclaim your past and reclaim your territory. Make something that doesn’t suck, please…
Via: Moustache