Walkman Archaeology

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    1988, the Sony D-88 CD player and WM-509 Series of Walkmans


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    Sony ICF-SW1 from 1988


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    Sony TCD-D10 from 1988, wow, silly money for this one.


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    1994 Audio Magazine, she has a little Mr X in her eyes! Wow, the JVC is stunning, I've never seen that one before but it has a silly money price tag. Anybody own one?


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    From HiFi World 2015, describing some of the difficulty of fixing a WM-D6


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    Radioelektronik 1993



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    Cover only but still a nice looking unit with two led screens


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    Klangild 1978, this looks tiny!

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    A nice looking model from Siemens 1978, most likely for dictation but little did we know only one year later......


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    ...from ELECTRONICS magazine, june 1981:

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    Great find! There's some info about the new stereo microcassettes. I picked up my Quasar SM Boombox to check the model number to see if it was close to the Pansonic GZ-7 and found some of my Eneloops in it. I'm not sure what the GZ-7 is?
     
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    nice. pocketcalculatorshow.com. that‘s how it all started (that page is mother of stereo2go), even that i think, it was founded in 1999 - not as it says in 2001…
    i was member there of first hour (more or less). there was no chatroom in those days, you had to send an email to paul or tim and they published or forwarded it to the receipiant.
    after surfing their page, i bought my first dd100 boodo khan on ebay. they were expensive all the time, well, watching those todays prices, i got a bargain paying 100 bucks for a boxed unit…
     
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    I've got some screenshots from the early internet, a lot of equipment was pretty cheap but the nicer units have always sold for a premium. Ebay was different back then, auctions started at .01 cent, you didn't trust the sellers that started at a high price.

    The PCS.com guys did a great job of posting a ton of units that were pretty rare at the time, stuff I'd never seen before like the GZ-7, and I think they got big hits on the website because of it.
     
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