A 14-year-old tries out a Walkman. Hilarity ensues.
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.
But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly – effective, if a little laboured.
When playing, it is clearly evident that the music sounds significantly different than when played on an MP3 player, mainly because of the hissy backtrack and odd warbly noises on the Walkman. The warbling is probably because of the horrifically short battery life; [LOL: ed] it is nearly completely dead within three hours of firing it up. Not long after the music warbled into life, it abruptly ended.
Did my dad, Alan, really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?
Laugh it up kids, eventually you’ll be shaking your head a the ridiculousness of the iPod.
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