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A pretty shitty museum really. Discman was only made by Sony.
I was gonna say, this museum had one job and they failed it
Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.
Yeah this gives the vibe of some poorly-researched hipster pop up "museum"
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And it's not even the first of its type. I had a 1st gen Phillips Expanium that I got back in 2000.
I had a diskman when they were dying to pure MP3 players.
It was an ATRAK3 plus (a proprietary compression format) and CD player combo that came with software to burn whole libraries on standard CDs, complete with folders and everything.
It was cool as hell, a built-in an/fm tuner, and I used it for work for years along with a single rewritable cd. I had different folders for different languages and genres and shit.
You can buy them on eBay now for like $30, which ironically is more than I paid for it in 2002-4 or whatever it was, however the software to convert to the ATRAK3 plus format was super super hard to find even in the early naughties, unless you have the installer disc.
They should have put one of those into the museum. Would have been way cooler and more informative and shit
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I recently found my first mobile phone model in a museum. I know the feeling.
i found one in the basement. 15% battery life left.
I used to sell that model when it was the new hotness.
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Walking down the street, cradling the thing like a baby because the slightest bump would cause it to skip, those were the days xD
In 2002 they would all have anti-skip, even the cheap knock offs. The skipping was just in the early 90s.
Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend's dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.
Anti skip wasn't completely anti skip if it took a massive jolt but for sure it was like magic compares to the old ones which needed to be preferably flat on a table xD
One massive jolt was okay, but sustained vibration was not. Anti-skip worked by caching a few seconds in the future and playing that when the laser lost focus. More than a couple seconds of no laser contact and the cache runs out.
I mean I was doing a paper round around 2000 and the one I owned certainly didn't have anti-skip to begin with and even when they did have anti-skip that doesn't mean that it never skipped as later ones I had with it only had "x seconds of anti skip" so if it receives a big jolt that shit was still skipping
And the CDs needed to be handled with kid gloves
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Yeah, that’s a low blow. Not a Walkman, not just a portable Cd player, a bloody mp3 cd with a remote on the headphones from 2002. Who are you calling old, eh? Kids these days have no respect
Ain't no way that's a Discman. I have a Sony one from the 90s on my desk, for one. Two, I thought Sony had the trademark on Discman? And three, that's Panasonic and doesn't have Discman anywhere on it.
So unless Discman wasn't trademarked and became synonymous with CD players, I refuse to accept that's a discman!
I was gonna say the same thing, but I'm glad you did. Makes me feel old anyway.
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Yet Wikipedia says Sony launched it in 1984 but changed the name to Walkman at some point
I had this exact model ! Burned a CD with all the Linkin Park, Sum 41, Blink 182, Rage against the machine, System of a Down, Red hot chili peppers, and more !
Those were simpler times...
You have an exquisite taste in music.
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Wait until you see the home computer you grew up with, along with a joystick and selection of game tapes/discs including some of your favourites, in a glass case in a museum of technology; then you are free to crumble to dust.
Always love antishock
This early 21st century edition includes Anti-Skip Protection, some archaeological research indicates that it functioned the same way ESP or Electronic Skip Protection, however no conclusive records have ever been recovered…
When can I be encased in a glass box and finally get some peace?
Make sure to die in a peat bog, and then give it a few thousand years.
c. 2002
That is a low blow, museum
It's not even the oldest one. I had to wait like three Christmases until I could play mp3s on a disk without converting them first.
Damn kid you had the high tech newfangled round clear gel looking shit.
I had the original 6AA battery disc man where you can either listen to music for a couple of drives without skipping, or a week if you didn't turn the anti skip buffer on.
The anti-skip sucked battery?
Horribly, it read the disk into a memory buffer, then played from the buffer. Ram was expensive, tiny, and power hungry back then. It was pretty shock-sensitive too. Every time it detected a fail, it would have to seek/re-read the section. If you had some decent bass, the song itself could set it off :)
It wasn't the buffer itself that drew power. It was the need to physically spin the disc faster in order to read the data to build up a buffer. So it would draw more power even if you left it physically stable. And then, if it would actually skip in reading, it would need to seek back to where it was to build up the buffer again.
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WTF is this nonsense, Discman was a specific Sony product ala Walkman.
basically all cutting edge tech from my teen years:
It was never called a Tapeman, so why disc?
It should be a runman or a walkwoman.
Because you could hardly walk, let alone run with one if you actually wanted to enjoy the music
The anti skip actually worked really well. I used to have it in my backpack and didn’t have many issues.
Although I couldn’t afford many batteries to run it often, and rechargeable sucked.
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You've never been older in your life than you are now
Ode to a world of ownership
I don't know why, but this hits the hardest.
Then I guess you must have overlooked the first cell phone models you used (or even later ones) in that same museum...
Feels like this would fit in as some background piece in Doctor Who.
Let me think, when did I last use a CD player like that?
Oh, I remember. Today morning. Oh, it's been a while.
I guess that panasonic one I had in 1986 would be over next to the dinosaurs.
Mine was like the first one shown in this commercial. What they don't show you was the huge battery pack you had put the portable in.
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