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It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
I guess I was about that lad’s age when I got my Walkman-clone (was it a Siemens?) and this article is a handy reminder about how technology has progressed. Still, I got my first computer before I got a walkman. It had 48KB RAM…