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[-] oh_@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago

Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.

[-] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Yeah this gives the vibe of some poorly-researched hipster pop up "museum"

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Perhaps a problem in museum, but at least where I live any highly portable CD player like this gets called "discman" same as with portable cassette players being called "walkman".

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah what is that called when a product name becomes a common noun? Nintendo fought this so that "Nintendo" didn't become synonymous with "videogame console."

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Trademark erosion?

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

And it's not even the first of its type. I had a 1st gen Phillips Expanium that I got back in 2000.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

You confirmed my suspicions. I immediately looked at the tag and knew it probably wasn't a Discman because there ain't no way Sony wouldn't have trademarked that name.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 99 points 3 days ago

A pretty shitty museum really. Discman was only made by Sony.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

I was gonna say, this museum had one job and they failed it

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

basically all cutting edge tech from my teen years:

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

It's Sony, y'all. If there's infringement to be imposed upon you know they'll be right there swingin' their Sony balogna.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Yet Wikipedia says Sony launched it in 1984 but changed the name to Walkman at some point

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago
[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

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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[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

I recently found my first mobile phone model in a museum. I know the feeling.

[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 23 points 3 days ago

i found one in the basement. 15% battery life left.

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[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago

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

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I've seen a 3DS in the Technical Museum in Vienna.

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[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 days ago

Walking down the street, cradling the thing like a baby because the slightest bump would cause it to skip, those were the days xD

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

In 2002 they would all have anti-skip, even the cheap knock offs. The skipping was just in the early 90s.

[-] SCmSTR 8 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 8 points 3 days ago

And the CDs needed to be handled with kid gloves

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[-] Pnut@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Where I went, they also completely recreated the living space around it for the different era. The wallpaper, the furniture, even a soldering iron for the electronics enthousiast, it all matched perfectly. That was a nostalgia trip.

Edit:

See if this triggers your nostalgia: A, B and C from here

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

WTF is this nonsense, Discman was a specific Sony product ala Walkman.

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

When can I be encased in a glass box and finally get some peace?

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

More battery drain with anti-skip.
The tables have turned later on. The anti-skip would extend battery life. It would get enough buffer allowing the CD to spin-down and then it would spin back up when needed. This time could be even longer if playing MP3.

For example, my Panasonic SL-CT520 does 100 second "anti-skip" (at this point it's not really just anti-skip), and with MP3 cites up to 155h of playback time. Unfortunately, the unit I have can't play CD-RW (it is mentioned in the manual) which probably means a degraded laser.

But even with CDDA, my Sony D-EJ000 cites 16 hours with anti-skip and only 11 hours without anti-skip. Unfortunately, in this case the anti-skip also reduces audio quality slightly since it uses lossy compression, so I keep it off.
At least I think that's what the manual is trying to say

To enjoy high quality CD sound, select “G-off”.

[-] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

The anti-skip sucked battery?

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

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 :)

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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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[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago

Always love antishock

[-] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

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…

[-] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

You've never been older in your life than you are now

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

c. 2002

That is a low blow, museum

[-] OhioComrade@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Feels like this would fit in as some background piece in Doctor Who.

[-] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Then I guess you must have overlooked the first cell phone models you used (or even later ones) in that same museum...

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Let me think, when did I last use a CD player like that?

Oh, I remember. Today morning. Oh, it's been a while.

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