It belonged to my father-in-law. I asked him how much he’d take for it. He said I could just have it. It was pretty dusty and the hinge was sticking. I put a little bit of lube on the hinge and lid arm. Now it pops open just fine. It takes 9 volts to drive this bad boy. This is from a time that CDs were genuinely cool, new, and exiting.

Manufactured April 1990. This thing is a full 2 years older than me.

I’m listening to Blue Weekend at the moment. Incredible album. Ellie Rowsell has a beautiful voice. Here’s my favorite song from it played live.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had this exact model when I was a kid. This takes me back.

    I had CD players all through my youth, then iPods in my early adult years. I liked to run with music, but they all skipped if you jostled them around too much. I had to wait for smartphones to become a thing before I could listen to music on the go.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Really? That’s cool as hell because I can find NO documentation about this model ever existing anywhere lol!

      I had a Sony Walkman. I think it was this exact model

      Sony D-EJ010 PSYC

      I also daily drove CD players through my youth. My family never had the means to get me something like an iPod. I got my first cell phone in '09, when I was 17. It was a Motorola RAZR ve20. It featured such wild technologies as Micro USB and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It had an SD card slot and could play MP3s. I was probably one of eight people on the planet using a dumb phone as a music player lol But hey, it was way better than having to lug around what CDs I might feel like listening to on the school bus.

      Portable was a bit of a misnomer. Even with anti-skip, it happens if you’re too rough. If you’re moving at all without anti-skip, eh, forget about it lol

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I had a Sony Walkman.

        I might be dating myself a bit, but when you say “Sony Walkman,” I think of portable tape cassette players (what Starlord uses to listen to his '80s hits in the Guardians of the Galaxy films). They were the technology before CD players were a thing. I’ve never heard a CD player called a Walkman before. Like Starlord, I was a child of the '80s and started out with the old tape cassette players. And the Sony Walkman was the “iPod” of that generation; the most famous brand of tape cassette players.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Beauty … I like this because it keeps items that were built decades ago in good use.

  • sqw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    how’s the sound? some of the early cd players had pretty amazing DAC circuits while cost was no object as they were the new high end toy.