Gadgets Gone Wild

While your column is a servicable introduction to the gadgets of yesteryear, you fail to mention some of the more memorable devices. I am thinking specifically of the first portable music device, the Sony Walkman Record Player. I look back with fondness to the days when I could strut about town with melon-sized headphones strapped awkwardly to my head while the hits of Streisand and Sabbath randomly poured their way into my consciousness via the series of pizza-tray-sized black discs shuffling loudly and clumsily atop one another on my hip.

For shame, good sir. We your loyal readers cannot abide such an oversight.

Comment by Monte Williams — January 30, 2007 @ 12:29 pm

Man, you’re right! I forgot about that thing. Skipped like crazy. But it did have that warm analog sound you just can’t beat..

Comment by Glenn McDonald — February 1, 2007 @ 6:31 am