I have born in early seventies. There was a huge boom in home music recording
in 80´s when the c-cassettes came to market. Anyone with decent home hifi and record player was able to record their vinyl records to cassettes. That gave people to freedom to listen music in their walkman players nearly everywhere. I remember when I had my first Portable Cassette player because it consumed batteries so much. You could listen only few hours of music and it was quit big and not easy to carry like mp3 players and ipod players of today.
I´ve found also a vintage cassette tape website if you want to check it out.
You are able to actully send some photos of your old cassettes to the webmaster.
http://www.tapedeck.org
Sony Corp is struggling to reinvent itself and win back its reputation as a pioneer of razzle dazzle gadgetry one exemplified in the Walkman, went on sale 30 years ago by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette tape player delivered. The original Walkman was as big as paperback book and weighed 390 grams. But people snatched it up. Thirty years is a milestone of Sony and Walkman won't be seen as just a piece of history.
i was thinking today about what a great invention the mp3 player is. we can fit thousands of songs on to a device that's smaller than an audio cassette.i remember owning one of those portable cassette players, a walkman. it was a small, slim model but was still bulky compared to the biggest ipod and i had to also carry a large amount of cassettes whenever i wanted to take my walkman on a train journey or to the beach.do you still own a walkman, if so do you still use it?
do you know anyone who still uses a walkman?
