My portable music player history has been rather colorful. When I was small (like 7 years old or so), I had an old Sony Walkman. When I say ‘old’, I mean antique. It was already like 10 years old when I got it. But it served me well and if I’m not mistaken it still works, although I don’t have any Cassettes to test it out with. After Cassettes became antiquated, I moved onto a CD Walkman. It was huge and had no Shock Absorption whatsoever, so listening to music while walking was nearly impossible. While I lived in England, the MiniDisc hit the market and at the time, it was marketed as the CD-killer. So I got one and then another one. Both were neat gadgets, but since MD albums cost 1,5x the price of normal CD albums, they never really took off. The players were small, just a little smaller than a 3,5″ floppy disk, but the actual discs lacked storage space and recording music onto them was a real bitch — you had to listen though the entire song/album to get it onto the disc.
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