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When a 13-year-old From 2009 Uses a Walkman For a Week [Walkman]
Gizmodo —
... To the kid's credit, he was able to deduce that the tape had two sides (took him three days) and that you could switch between two kinds of tapes fairly easily. He was also given weird looks on the street and allowed to listen to music in class because of his teachers' nostalgia. But in the end, which did he like better: his Walkman or his iPod? The iPod, of course, except for the fact that the Walkman had two headphone ports for easy music sharing. [BBC via Engadget]
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On loving the Walkman for what it was, and the iPod for what it is
Core77 —
If you haven't yet stumbled across it on BBC News, Engadget or the discussion boards here on Core77, there's a great little article making the rounds today, in which 13-year-old Scott Campbell is asked to give his opinions on the very Walkman his dad once toted (or hauled, if you want to be honest about the size of those early ones).
Besides the obvious entertainment value of hearing a (surprisingly eloquent) youngster discover how to flip a tape over, and "shuffle" tracks by randomly releasing the rewind button, there's some ...
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