• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Ain’t no way that’s a Discman. I have a Sony one from the 90s on my desk, for one. Two, I thought Sony had the trademark on Discman? And three, that’s Panasonic and doesn’t have Discman anywhere on it.

    So unless Discman wasn’t trademarked and became synonymous with CD players, I refuse to accept that’s a discman!

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    It’s not even the oldest one. I had to wait like three Christmases until I could play mp3s on a disk without converting them first.

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    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.

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    6 days ago

    Saw a Genesis console displayed behind glass in a library. I took photos like I haven’t seen one before… 😭

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    7 days ago

    Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.

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      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

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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      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.