IIRC that one doesn’t have skip protection
It says it has it on the front.
i never claimed to be able to read
A pretty shitty museum really. Discman was only made by Sony.
I was gonna say, this museum had one job and they failed it
And why would you want one from 2002 instead of more of an OG like the Sony d-777 from around 1994.
the one pictured could play mp3 cds, you could actually walk with it. i want the OG where even thinking of a bump would make it skip.
This early 21st century edition includes Anti-Skip Protection, some archaeological research indicates that it functioned the same way ESP or Electronic Skip Protection, however no conclusive records have ever been recovered…
Walking down the street, cradling the thing like a baby because the slightest bump would cause it to skip, those were the days xD
And the CDs needed to be handled with kid gloves
In 2002 they would all have anti-skip, even the cheap knock offs. The skipping was just in the early 90s.
Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend’s dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.
Anti skip wasn’t completely anti skip if it took a massive jolt but for sure it was like magic compares to the old ones which needed to be preferably flat on a table xD
One massive jolt was okay, but sustained vibration was not. Anti-skip worked by caching a few seconds in the future and playing that when the laser lost focus. More than a couple seconds of no laser contact and the cache runs out.
I mean I was doing a paper round around 2000 and the one I owned certainly didn’t have anti-skip to begin with and even when they did have anti-skip that doesn’t mean that it never skipped as later ones I had with it only had “x seconds of anti skip” so if it receives a big jolt that shit was still skipping
What’s the long black cable coming off it?
It’s a headphones cable with a built-in remote so you could put the player in your bag and change tracks using the remote built into the headphones cable.
Also you guys are making me feel painfully old.
I’m just fucking with ya, I’m old. Walkmans were a thing when I was young, phasing out portable boom boxes that used large non-rechargable D cell batteries… All LEDs were red back then, because it was the only color available. The internet hadn’t been popularised yet, and “yo” was a cool new way to say hello.
It’s the tether for your Airpods so you don’t lose them.
Also, are those two circles the display? That’s a pretty cool design. I really like old technology.
It says MP3 on it. I remember when I was a kid, I wanted a mp3-player because it was the hot shit. So I bought a Panasonic discman that said “MP3” on it. That’s when I learned what “mp3-disks” are and how to quickly navigate through 400 songs using one button
Ode to a world of ownership
I don’t know why, but this hits the hardest.
I recently found my first mobile phone model in a museum. I know the feeling.
I used to sell that model when it was the new hotness.
i found one in the basement. 15% battery life left.
basically all cutting edge tech from my teen years:
Yeah, that’s a low blow. Not a Walkman, not just a portable Cd player, a bloody mp3 cd with a remote on the headphones from 2002. Who are you calling old, eh? Kids these days have no respect
I’ve seen a 3DS in the Technical Museum in Vienna.
Now that’s some nonsense, my mate’s kid still uses his, and he’s like 10
Not saying it necessarily belongs there, just that I saw it there.
Then again it was in a display about the evolution of consumer tech, and there were some newer smartphones there too, so I guess it did fit well into that.
When can I be encased in a glass box and finally get some peace?
Make sure to die in a peat bog, and then give it a few thousand years.
When I was a little kid my dad’s old retired police cruiser still had an 8-track player in it. Y’all ain’t that old. I was there for that thing’s entire lifecycle, then portable mp3 players’ too. Streaming on mobile will probably last a while though.
Wait until you see the home computer you grew up with, along with a joystick and selection of game tapes/discs including some of your favourites, in a glass case in a museum of technology; then you are free to crumble to dust.
Where I went, they also completely recreated the living space around it for the different era. The wallpaper, the furniture, even a soldering iron for the electronics enthousiast, it all matched perfectly. That was a nostalgia trip.
God. Had A and B and the VIC-20 before A.
Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.
You confirmed my suspicions. I immediately looked at the tag and knew it probably wasn’t a Discman because there ain’t no way Sony wouldn’t have trademarked that name.
I had a diskman when they were dying to pure MP3 players.
It was an ATRAK3 plus (a proprietary compression format) and CD player combo that came with software to burn whole libraries on standard CDs, complete with folders and everything.
It was cool as hell, a built-in an/fm tuner, and I used it for work for years along with a single rewritable cd. I had different folders for different languages and genres and shit.
You can buy them on eBay now for like $30, which ironically is more than I paid for it in 2002-4 or whatever it was, however the software to convert to the ATRAK3 plus format was super super hard to find even in the early naughties, unless you have the installer disc.
They should have put one of those into the museum. Would have been way cooler and more informative and shit
Yeah this gives the vibe of some poorly-researched hipster pop up “museum”
Perhaps a problem in museum, but at least where I live any highly portable CD player like this gets called “discman” same as with portable cassette players being called “walkman”.
Yeah what is that called when a product name becomes a common noun? Nintendo fought this so that “Nintendo” didn’t become synonymous with “videogame console.”
Trademark erosion?
And it’s not even the first of its type. I had a 1st gen Phillips Expanium that I got back in 2000.
