http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/07/01/sony-walkman-turns-30/ Stay plugged into the A with Creative Loafing's music blog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:11:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/07/01/sony-walkman-turns-30/comment-page-1/#comment-26490 Tom Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:37:54 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=8654#comment-26490 I still have my "original" Sony Walkman purchased 30 years ago at Neiman Marcus, here in Atlanta. And, yes, $340 was a pile of money to blow on a portable music player, but, once you heard what music sounded like through those stereo headphones injecting the tunes into your head...you were hooked. Incidentally, mine had packaging from Sony that called it the Sony "SOUNDABOUT",(reference your comment about Sony's marketing plan for different names for the product in different countries). My original headphones and box are long gone, but the rest still works perfectly. BTW, notice the orange button on top of the player ?...It was an interesting feature..if you pushed it while listening to music, you and the SECOND listener (it had TWO headphone jacks) could hear whatever came through the built-in microphone over the dropped volume music. I guess it was a strange attempt at some kind of safety feature. I remember my girlfriend used it to talk dirty to me while we listened to music together...so much for safety features ! Happy anniversary Sony ! I still have my “original” Sony Walkman purchased 30 years ago at Neiman Marcus, here in Atlanta. And, yes, $340 was a pile of money to blow on a portable music player, but, once you heard what music sounded like through those stereo headphones injecting the tunes into your head…you were hooked. Incidentally, mine had packaging from Sony that called it the Sony “SOUNDABOUT”,(reference your comment about Sony’s marketing plan for different names for the product in different countries). My original headphones and box are long gone, but the rest still works perfectly. BTW, notice the orange button on top of the player ?…It was an interesting feature..if you pushed it while listening to music, you and the SECOND listener (it had TWO headphone jacks) could hear whatever came through the built-in microphone over the dropped volume music. I guess it was a strange attempt at some kind of safety feature. I remember my girlfriend used it to talk dirty to me while we listened to music together…so much for safety features ! Happy anniversary Sony !

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