It belonged to my father-in-law. I asked him how much he’d take for it. He said I could just have it. It was pretty dusty and the hinge was sticking. I put a little bit of lube on the hinge and lid arm. Now it pops open just fine. It takes 9 volts to drive this bad boy. This is from a time that CDs were genuinely cool, new, and exiting.
Manufactured April 1990. This thing is a full 2 years older than me.
I’m listening to Blue Weekend at the moment. Incredible album. Ellie Rowsell has a beautiful voice. Here’s my favorite song from it played live.
I had this exact model when I was a kid. This takes me back.
I had CD players all through my youth, then iPods in my early adult years. I liked to run with music, but they all skipped if you jostled them around too much. I had to wait for smartphones to become a thing before I could listen to music on the go.
Really? That’s cool as hell because I can find NO documentation about this model ever existing anywhere lol!
I had a Sony Walkman. I think it was this exact model
Sony D-EJ010 PSYC
I also daily drove CD players through my youth. My family never had the means to get me something like an iPod. I got my first cell phone in '09, when I was 17. It was a Motorola RAZR ve20. It featured such wild technologies as Micro USB and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It had an SD card slot and could play MP3s. I was probably one of eight people on the planet using a dumb phone as a music player lol But hey, it was way better than having to lug around what CDs I might feel like listening to on the school bus.
Portable was a bit of a misnomer. Even with anti-skip, it happens if you’re too rough. If you’re moving at all without anti-skip, eh, forget about it lol
I might be dating myself a bit, but when you say “Sony Walkman,” I think of portable tape cassette players (what Starlord uses to listen to his '80s hits in the Guardians of the Galaxy films). They were the technology before CD players were a thing. I’ve never heard a CD player called a Walkman before. Like Starlord, I was a child of the '80s and started out with the old tape cassette players. And the Sony Walkman was the “iPod” of that generation; the most famous brand of tape cassette players.