Sony Walkman Cassette player with Woomp There It Is!!

A single speaker 8-track player

A KISS radio, hah, this takes me waaaay back to Detroit Rock City.

yellow sony walkman cassette!

A 3 dollar crystal am radio.

Looks like we are a tad on the old side here!

Other -> MD players, remember those? Yeah, still got it too, hanging around somewhere.

I had some no-name cassette player, that took 4-C cell batteries. Only had one speaker too.

A portable record player to play Disney audio books.

A Fisher-Price portable record player that plugged in, and played my favorite record "Free to Be You and Me" by Marlo Thomas.

Anthop wrote:Other -> MD players, remember those? Yeah, still got it too, hanging around somewhere.

Yes, I have 2 players and a recorder sitting around somewhere!! Now if I could find all my MDs!!

Anthop wrote:Other -> MD players, remember those? Yeah, still got it too, hanging around somewhere.

Me too, I looked awesome with my Sharp MDMS722 in high school. Great audio player/recorder, amazing sound!!!

Now people are like, "MiniDisc who?"

An AM/FM radio headset where the radio was built right into the headset part so I could deliver newspapers without wires getting in the way. I now use stereo bluetooth for the same reason...the wires, not the newspapers.

A stick and a rock.

If it has to be a man-made object, and mechanical, a bell.

If it has to be a more complex machine, a music box.

Mine was a Close and Play (a portable record player) -- we played our 45s until they were all too scratched to listen to.

My first portable music player was my '84 Ford Tempo.

I had a cheap portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, monaural, with an even cheaper clip-on microphone. My sister had the portable record player. Not the sissy one that only played 45s either. It would play full size LPs in stereo. Mom liked her best.

Anthop wrote:Other -> MD players, remember those? Yeah, still got it too, hanging around somewhere.

A MD player was my second, cost $120 and had some Jatravartid sony DRM. I still have it.

A homemade crystal radio set complete with Philmore galena using a cats whisker made from a safety pin, Quaker oats box, fahnstock clips and a single earphone - all mounted on a varnished pine board.

Times were much more simpler then.

Dual speaker AM/FM 8 track player. The thing separated in half and you could put the speakers about 4' apart as I recall.

It was one of the coolest Christmas presents ever!!! (circa +/- 1977)

A two speaker LP player. Used to have lots of 45s. Listened to a lot of Beetles.

greenlantern57 wrote: Listened to a lot of Beetles.

Maybe you listened to 'em, but you surely never wrote their name.

cardinalsfan wrote:Yes, I have 2 players and a recorder sitting around somewhere!! Now if I could find all my MDs!!

I have 3 Hi-MD recorders and hundreds of discs. I don't really have the time or inclination to post them on eBay, and they likely wouldn't sell.

Hi-MD was the best for audio quality, and if you could live with a (relatively) crap recording, you could fit something like 36 hours on a disc.

It was called a "recorder." Strange, 'cause it didn't record anything.

Power supply and control were not merely analog, but organic.

Had a tendency to distort tunes unless I paid very close attention.

A rocket shaped crystal radio, that I hooked to the rain gutter at school during recess.

Sony Walkman!

I still have "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" on a 33 1/3. And it's not vinyl, some other brittle material.

afseale wrote:Looks like we are a tad on the old side here!

Old? I had (and still have!) a Realistic reel-to-reel (3" mini-reels) with a built-in AM radio. I've still got all my tapes, plus one from my aunt who recorded Apollo 13's moon landing, and many of them are still playable.

Yep, we didn't have no high-falutin' cartridges or cassettes or discs or (gasp!) stamp-sized cards, we had solid 1/4" tape you could wrap around a house. And we liked it that way!

spanky wrote:A homemade crystal radio set complete with Philmore galena using a cats whisker made from a safety pin, Quaker oats box, fahnstock clips and a single earphone - all mounted on a varnished pine board.

Times were much more simpler then.

That was NOT portable!

Transistor radio. My dad brought them back by the dozen from one of his many visits to WESTPAC - AKA Japan. No headphones, just a radio. And for being the poor kids on the block we often had the latest: roller skates, bikes, reel to reel etc.

I'm one of the original transistor sisters.

aradiakali wrote:yellow sony walkman cassette!

Yeah I had one too. Mine was huge and "waterproof", it had a rubber seal and looked a lot like a submarin. I bet my parents thought they were thing ahead.

roundbrackets wrote:Yeah I had one too. Mine was huge and "waterproof", it had a rubber seal and looked a lot like a submarin. I bet my parents thought they were thing ahead.

Thinking! Thanks iPhone.

mikeyzero wrote:A 3 dollar crystal am radio.

Wow! I forgot all about that.

a transistor radio AM only, with a single mono earplug.

Talkboy...

I got this 45 player that you popped the 45 in like sliding in a CD and it played. I would put this in my bicycle basket and have portable music. I was so ahead of my time It was bright pink with a chrome handle and ran on D batteries. It was so awesome.

My first portable music player was ipod