I mean it was over twenty one years ago. Technology ages fast. You can also say it had historical significance so it can end up in a museum earlier than you might expect.
This thing is so recent it could play MP3s… The first Discman was released in 1984. I’m actually really confused why they picked such a recent version, the technology was almost phased out when this thing was released. FFS the original iPod came out a year before this thing…
Probably because they couldn’t purchase the other ones at reasonable prices anywhere.
Here is one for $44. https://www.ebay.com/itm/256220081101
Surely a museum can afford that? Right?
But that one doesn’t have an anti-skip system
Right and it also can’t rip the whole ass CD to a SD Card like a modern CD player.
But it’s a museum. It isn’t about having the newest shit
Most museums rely on donations. While they likely could afford it there’s 0 reason to buy one if a patreon is willing to gift one
My guess is that this is just one of a number of CD players they have, and they want to show how the technology progressed.
You guys thinking what I’m thinking? HEIST
Kinda off-topic, but I honestly miss the in-line remotes high-end Discman & portable Minidisc players used to have…
Really wish they would make a come-back in some way, maybe as a supplemental Bluetooth device?
I had the exact same model !
Museum ≠ old.
I’m sure there are mp3 players in museums as well.
The Colorado Railroad Museum has railroad crossing signals donated by BNSF that are only a few years old. Museums will gladly accept both old and new.
Yup. I’m pretty sure the Computer Museum out in Mountain View has stuff on display that’s less than 5 years old in some of their “progress of technology” type displays. I think when I last went there a couple years ago, for gaming history they had all the latest (at the time) consoles as well. It was pretty funny seeing something like a PS4 in a history museum though.
It reminds me when I was visiting my older brother in Spain and we went to a tech museum. There was a Sinclair Spectrum and me and my brother were thilled to see it. My niece was astonished fisrt then she was picking on us for hours non stop" you’re a pair of dinosaurs" “you belong to a museum” “any plans for retirement” . When I told my wife she was like “well you’re almost forty honey” ☠️
Wasn’t Discman a Sony brand?
Yes. Just like Walkman is.
Correct. This isn’t labeled correctly.
I’m pretty sure that’s walkman.
You are correct
Both Walkman and Discman were Sony brands.
I had that exact model. And I was cool, wearing my over the ear headphones.
Fuck this brings back great memories. I used to supply my whole school with CDs and tapes of people’s favourite music. I always threw in a couple of extra songs with a similar feel and style if there was extra space. I was the only one that had the tech so I was like a queen in my school until mp3 players came around.
First time I felt truly old is when Digital Foundry made retro review of Batman Arkham Origins. They only consider a game retro if it’s ten years old.
Except this was at a time when a 16gb SD card was like $100
I think a 512MB USB drive was about 30 bucks at the time. Not sure 16 GB SD cards even existed.
2002? Didn’t they rename the Discman line to the CD Walkman around this time?
I remember seeing a Patreon exclusive video of a CD Walkman from 2003. I’m not sure if this is the first one to bear that name or not.
That was legit the best MP3 CD player. It never skips no matter how much you shake it and it builds a different, but consistent shuffle playlist depending on what song was playing when you hit shuffle.
And the worst part is that I had the exact same model.
Maybe you belong to a museum too…
