basically all cutting edge tech from my teen 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.
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!
I was gonna say the same thing, but I’m glad you did. Makes me feel old anyway.
It’s Sony, y’all. If there’s infringement to be imposed upon you know they’ll be right there swingin’ their Sony balogna.
Yet Wikipedia says Sony launched it in 1984 but changed the name to Walkman at some point
Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.
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?
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
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.
And it’s not even the first of its type. I had a 1st gen Phillips Expanium that I got back in 2000.
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.
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.
WTF is this nonsense, Discman was a specific Sony product ala Walkman.
I had this exact model ! Burned a CD with all the Linkin Park, Sum 41, Blink 182, Rage against the machine, System of a Down, Red hot chili peppers, and more !
Those were simpler times…
You have an exquisite taste in music.
Papercuts is a jam
It’s still probably my favourite song of all time lol
All at 128kbps!
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.
You’ve never been older in your life than you are now
I recently found my first mobile phone model in a museum. I know the feeling.
i found one in the basement. 15% battery life left.
I used to sell that model when it was the new hotness.
I had a Nokia 5110 too.
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.
God. Had A and B and the VIC-20 before A.
Then I guess you must have overlooked the first cell phone models you used (or even later ones) in that same museum…
Feels like this would fit in as some background piece in Doctor Who.
