So ill keep it pretty short, im 18, about 14-15 when i started fixing walkmans, got into them originally to spite the administration at my school who banned phones, working on 3D printed walkman parts (wm-10 currently), and have a small collection of 80s walkmans, from the wm-7 (personal favorite), tps-l2, wm-w800, wm-40 to many wm-10 models (excluding a couple that are for parts or have electrical issues) and thats kinda it oh and a very unbiased poll to gauge who made the best stuff in the 80s
les grandes marques comme Sony, JVC-Victor, Akai Pioneer ... avaient peut etre des sous-traitants et de grands centre de recherche et developpement.. Sony etait un geant.. Cela Merite des recherches car ma memoire est loin..
The young members lead the way! Welcome to the forum, I used to be the scurge at my high school back then, we could wear collered shirts so I went to the army surplus and got a ton of olive drab shirts from the 60's. Those were fun times but no phones and Walkmans were hated! Sony made some great stuff but don't underestimate the other powerhouses, at the time we thought they were going to take over the world, companies like Toshiba, AIWA, Sanyo and Panasonic made a ton of stuff, add in all of the auto companies and it was doomsday for local manufacturing. Sounds like you have some fun projects going on, maybe some you can make some money on, feel free to share more.
well, its not so much the money im looking to make off projects, though i have no doubt collectors wouldnt shy away from spending a lot on stuff like this, its more just to preserve this old tech from becoming irreparable and left to be broken shelf pieces im just trying to find ways to keep it so every walkman is repairable without ever needing spare parts, and im hoping the process isnt too lengthy/time consuming so i can keep the costs to a minimum, on my end and for people who want to purchase any parts i make since im going to be not only taking the time to make them turn out as detailed as possible, but also painting them, i cant be sure how long it will take and i figure a lot of these have been used for parts or tossed because some small issue with a broken component before, so i think by making a ton of parts readily available for relatively low prices it can prevent a lot of those cases im hoping in the next few years when im better at modeling and painting to where its second nature, i can be making a lot of high quality replacements for a ton of models, even the very niche ones, fill in for all the replacements that hobbyists and fixyouraudio dont make like covers and gears by time im graduated with my degree and have a steady job, making somewhere in the ballpark of six figures, thinking i could be able to get a lineup of walkmans (for measurements) and printers (since they will likely be better and more affordable 6-7 years from now) and making a large amount of high end parts hell, since im going into electrical engineering for college, perhaps i could even go about making replacement motherboards and such, for those rare cases when a board is totally dead/eaten by battery acid, though i wouldnt want anyone tossing out perfectly fine parts just because they want something "new" and "better" but eh, thats to be seen when it happens, no plans are ever concrete and perhaps im thinking a bit optimistically
