Everyone has listened to the Walkman. When I was young, our family had no money, and we didn’t buy any very trendy digital products for me. When I was a child, I also used tapes to listen to music. I listened to music at that time. What about the equipment, called BBK repeater, how big is the repeater? It has to be this big, so I hold it like a pie in my hand. I was confused since I was a child. It doesn’t take this thing with me, and I can’t put this thing in my trousers pocket.
Just a few days ago, I had a very, very unexpected opportunity and I actually saw a product. Sony’s WM-150 Walkman. After I saw this product, I realized that the original Walkman was called a Walkman because it could be a Walkman. Was this product collected by a good friend and he lent it to him? I’m here to shoot a video for you, and I’ll show you this. This is my palm, which is a bit like a beauty blogger. When I first saw this product, I was shocked. It’s a carry-on store. I made some materials because I have never used this product myself. This product should have been released by Sony in 1988. Its product model is called WM150, and then there is a tape inside. I will give it to you. Take a look, it probably looks like this inside.
Let’s take a look at this Walkman. This is the design of Sony in 1988. I think the product at that time has a feeling that you can’t put it down when you hold it in your hand. Let me show you the details of this product. Details, first of all, this product uses a chewing gum battery. I have never used a Sony Walkman or a Sony chewing gum battery, but you can take a look, it should look like this.
How about changing the battery, this Walkman is opened from a small snap on the top, the battery should be plugged in from here, and I noticed that there are two metal contacts on this side of the Walkman, so In theory, this device should be able to charge the chewing gum battery through a contact-like charging. I checked it online and it should be about four hours of listening time when fully charged.
Then I’ll show you a series of buttons on this Walkman. The classmates who collected this product said that this device can go backwards song by song in the era when you were on tapes. Do you know what I mean? Maybe many students don’t understand now, why do you want to go backwards? It’s the listening song in the past. It’s not like now you can choose this song, if you want to choose this song, you can choose this song. Go back in, right? Jolin Tsai has a song called Rewind, right? This song may develop over time, and the subsequent listeners will not know what the song means. You need to rewind the process of rewinding, and as far as I understand it correctly, this device can According to the tape one song by song to guide it, and then this position.
There is a button called dar, I don’t know what it means, it’s a green button, and then, there is a forward missile, right, this is backward, this is forward. Then here is the pause, then here is the play, and I’ll show you all. Is this playing? This is N, this is stop, then this is express, there is an open above this, after you open this, this is a design inside, let me show you, it actually supports Dolby dobe NR, I will check For a moment, it should be dobe no reduction, which is a technology such as Dolby noise reduction, but I don’t know what noise reduction can be used on the tape, and there is also a button in this position.
The button in this position says tap, first of all he said tap, I guess it may be a type of tape, then, uh, the one on the right is normal nor, the one on the left is called CR two, it seems that there was a kind of tape in that era , its material is chrome oxide material. And then if you’re going to listen to the chrome thing, you just put the button on it, and here’s a headphone jack, and here’s a roller, man, I haven’t used a roller in a long time The button is pressed, and one of its selling points is automatic guidance, similar to this. Then in addition to this device, it also collects a red device like this. I saw these two at the time, and I thought this white one was very, very good-looking.
Then I will show you this red Walkman device. There is a tape in the red device. I will show you. Open it and see, maybe many students have not seen this thing. And this is a transparent tape. I speculate that this tape should not be cheap. I really listened to the tape when I was very young, and at that time, there was a very impressive thing, that is, listening to the tape to record the lyrics, now My classmates are very happy. Now when you listen to a song, the lyrics are directly integrated into what QQ music or what Apple music is. You can just read it.
When I was little, if you wanted to learn a song and sing a song, you needed to play that tape. Then copy one sentence, then play another sentence, and then copy another sentence. If you don’t hear it clearly, you have to go back and play it again, and then copy it again. The most troublesome thing about listening to this kind of tape is that sometimes you listen to it. Listen to him churning the tape, either you know the churning tape is this magnetic strip, uh, maybe it got tangled in the machine for some reason, and then the more churning, the more churning, you think it’s a sound , then you need to take out the tape, then use the chopsticks or pencils, and then turn the tape back a little bit, and you can still listen to it when you turn it back, but once the tape has a foot tape, it may appear later The frequency will get higher and higher, and then until one day it is completely entangled, you can only break it, and then the tape will not stop, wow wow, some ancient memories suddenly come back to my memory.
Many students may ask if this is the Walkman from Star Lord in the Interstellar Guard. I also checked the Internet, and it seems that it is not new. I think that it seems to be earlier than this Walkman. This should be a product that has evolved for several generations, but I have to say that in 1988, there was such a design, it was very classic, and it was very small. If you could have a Walkman in that era, I checked it and found When it was released this year, it seemed to be 22,000 yen. I don’t know how much it was in RMB at that time. If there is such a device, I will definitely fall in love with music. I will definitely love to listen to it every day. In the future I have the opportunity to share with you some of these digital products with memories of the times.
