When I was in 6th os 7th grade I found a walkman in a desk. I brought it home for the weekend and loved it. My parents didn't let me keep it, I had to bring it back and give to the lost and found office. The owner showed up within minutes after I dropped it off so I never got to keep it :( But I remembered the look and feel, it was magical. It was a Panasonic RQ-S33. It was not sold in my country, in fact I think it was a Japanese only model and the kid who owned it probably got it as a gift. My whole life I was dreaming about having a model like that, it was super slim, slick, soft touch, nothing I've ever seen before. Every walkman was so chunky, bulky, the machism was part of the button if you know what I mean. This one felt futuristic. And seeing your videos on vintage cassette players made me venture out and managed to snag one from Japan. This model is fairly pricy but after 25+ years I was able to get one, it wasn't a difficult repair to replace the belt and I spent the next couple of weeks listening to my old tapes. It was magical! I love walkmans that are almost as small as a cassette case, barely any width to them. I almost fell into the habit of walkman collecting, but luckily I quickly figured it out that this is now a really expensive hobby and I already have an expensive hobby with collecting old video games :)
My experience as well- sleek, precision design and function, never saw another again. Perhaps a Patreon contributor could ask Matt if familiar with the Toshiba KT-AS10- smaller than a cassette itself.
I hope you're feeling better and on your way to full recovery! Love your channel. You really do brighten people's day when your videos drop. I hope you know your work is much appreciated!
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"One sold poorly, the other didn't sell as well." I'm gonna steal that!
2:06 Fun Fact: in the 90's I used the motor, brass gears and rubber pulley band to create a battery powered petri dish spinner for plating bacteria in the lab. I was a Ph.D. student at the time. I still have that device too.
Although Mat has recently had problems with losing his voice, RUclips has been replacing original audio with an AI dubbed version for people in non English speaking countries.
@@nowster you can choose the audio track and i GREATLY appreciate the feature. it allows me to share english video with my non-english speaking relatives who were previously locked into 3% of the world's content that is in portuguese. but oh boy the AI voice does suck
Mat's calming, clear, Northern-accented voice is probably the main reason why I subscribed to his channel within 20 seconds of watching one of the earliest videos of his many, many years ago.
5:50 - Okay, my mind is properly blown right now. I never knew something like that existed. And the tuner wheel sticking out of the other side, like WHAT?!
4:35 That's from "Colossus the Forbin Project"! I remember that one, only because it starred Eric Braeden, who acted in my mom's favorite soap opera "The Young and the Restless" as Victor Newman.
There is nothing quite like 1980/90s portable music player engineering. It's almost a lost art. Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic, Toshiba-- so many insane designs. Thanks again, Mat. Hope you get well soon!
Always brightens my day up when Matt uploads a video. I wish I'd kept all the catalogues and brochures that I'd collected from Boots,etc. foolishly I threw them all out a few tears ago! Thank you for keeping yours. 😊👍🏻
Wow, this Text-to-Speech function in RUclips has really come into its own! Obligatory joke aside, it's great to hear you again Mat, and hope you're well onto recovery; if we don't get to hear from you again this month, have a Happy New Year too!
Early surface mount electrolytics are also, most probably, half dried, but more damagingly, they like to leak and destroy the PCB, and although in these machines they used mostly tantalums, allumunium are also present.
Hi Techmoan, if you're still looking for the smallest personal cassette player check out the Toshiba KT-AS10. It is so small that the cassette was bigger than the player, and it also came with a radio adapter!!
Thank you for not saying the wm10 as the smallest walkman the toshiba is the smallest but it's hard for people to know the insist the wm10 is the smallest but the kt as10 is the smallest
Ciertamente, poder oír tus vídeos en el lenguaje de Cervantes es estupendo, aunque llevo tanto tiempo escuchando tu voz con subtítulos, me quedo con tu voz. Muchas gracias por tu esfuerzo en que más personas puedan ver tus vídeos. Saludos desde Bilbao - España, ¡Feliz Navidad!
It's good to see you alive! Get completely well, please. I had a Schneider twin-walkman from a coffee-shop selling additional junk. That horrible cheap machine had two decks, a radio and a copy function. Sound quality was horrible hissy with a lot of jitter, no matter if you listened via headphone or with the two built in speakers at both ends. It also scratched the tapes. Even the styroform pack was melted on the cover and the headphone. I tried to give it back.
Love to see these things that either I had forgotten about, or that I didn't know existed. I had a couple Walkmans back in my day. The one that stands out was the big sports model. At a time when they were getting smaller, here comes this very chunky yellow model of I remember correctly, that was water proof, or at least, splash proof.
There was definitely a use case for these. I worked at a music store in the mall in the very early 90s and kids would have these. They would buy a cassette, go out to the mall, make a dub in one of these devices, then come right back in and return the cassette. OK it also happened with double cassette boom boxes but these were more discrete and I definitely remember more than one kid pulling the buy-dub-return shenanigans with these!
This is why I wanted one when I saw it. Then guy at my local music shop would have been cool with letting me do it too. Think he got fired because he was selling mix tapes too.
Well that was a very pleasant surprise - a new Techmoan video on a Tuesday! Glad to hear you're on the mend now, and the voice sounds just fine to me. Been a subscriber and viewer for years, always enjoy your videos no matter what the subject. The only channel I've got set up to notify me of new videos. Thank you for what you do and I hope that you and Mrs Techmnoan have a very Merry Christmas 🎄
Good to have you back, sir, and glad you’re on the mend. I was chewing my dinner when you played that player with the warped music and almost choked from laughter😅
Just when I thought I'd worked out when the bins go out during Christmas and New Year, the holiday confusion continues with a Tuesday Techmoan! Not that I'm complaining:)
The collection you collect makes me jealous.. Thank you so much for the journey through this era's technology. I am a millennial so I had a very good share of it through my father.
I bought the Sony new when I was on holiday in USA (NYC). I was 16 at the time. I used it a lot during high school years. Never seen another one here in Europe - only recently they have been popping up in RUclips videos. I still have mine and it still works even though it has never been serviced.
The coolest player I had in my youth - the headphones were not plugged in, but were already inside the player, wound on a hidden spring reel. You had to pull it out from the inside like a tape measure. And after listening, you pressed the button on the player to retract the wire (the earphones themselves were parked in the recesses of the player's body).
I still remember hanging out in the Walmart electronic section as a kid lusting after the Sony Walkman. It was the most compact one there but it was $40 and that was out of my price range. I ended up getting a RCA portable cassette player for $20 And it ended up being a fantastic unit that lasted many years!
Around 1990 I had a Toshiba walkman with FM radio insert. It was very small, very slim. If I remember correctly, a cassette would stick out a bit, the radio fitted flush. A really beautiful little machine, that I unfortunately broke and threw away.
😃I remember that in 1990 a friend arrived at school with a Sony Walkman, probably not for the European/Italian market, because when he took it to a Sony center they were surprised and amazed at how small it was and that no one knew anything about it, I think it came from a trip of a relative of his to Japan, it was similar to the Grungig in the video with AA battery in the external support, light in color and could record in stereo, the case of the audio cassette itself seemed like the Grundig, I have never been able to find it in photos on the net.
Didn't expect this video. Voice over is surprisingly good. It needs longer gaps, IMO, but that shouldn't take away from knowing you're still out there doing your thing.
I remember those portable tape players with optional radio packs. I have an 80s Toshiba Stereo Cassette Player KT-S3 with FM stereo tuner pack RP-S2. The size of a cassette and just plugs into the casetter deck like a normal casette. With a cutout in the cassette lid to allow you to change the station withou having to open it or remove the fancy protective cover.
I have one of those SONY portable dual cassette decks that I bought new in the 1980s, and you totally missed one of the uses of it that it was absolutely wonderful for. Live recordings. I loved that little device! (Mine no longer works either, but I got far more than my money's worth out of it!) The tiny microphone it came with is far better than one would expect from such a small thing. While its duplication obviously wasn't comparable to a regular full-sized deck, it was still useful to have when travelling - and that's where I used it. I was going to music conventions during that time, and have over a hundred tapes of live music that are considered part of a precious and rare archive now by the community, thanks to that little device. Granted, better recordings could have been made with less portable equipment, but sometimes the circumstances at the conventions wouldn't have accomodated that as well. I could carry the Walkman in my pocket, and could activate it very quickly any time someone started singing or playing in the hallways, or if an impromptu jam session broke out.
It always blows my mind to see how small cassette portables actually got. I grew up in the 90s, and by the time I got my first and only Walkman, these were mostly just cheap devices you gave your kid, because you didn't want them ruining an expensive Discman or something. Naturally, it's one of those late 90s chonkers from Sony that all used the same mechanism, all plastic construction, no convenient features like auto-reverse, etc. I would've loooooved something more akin to the Aiwa you showed. I also had no idea radio add-ons were even a thing. Granted, I've always kind of hated the radio, so I suppose it wouldn't have been on my radar anyway.
I wonder if there was ever a double recorder in this form factor for interviewing purposes. Either for immediately having two copies at one's disposal or to ensure redundancy in case one of the tapes snapped or got mangled without the interviewer noticing.
In the early 1980s, my brother-in-law sourced for me from Japan a Walkman style cassette-recorder after I asked him about buying one with a drop-in tuner, but he returned with an Aiwa CS-J1 which had a built-in FM tuner, plus the ability to play Meta-bias tapes & record in stereo onto normal tapes! Still have the Aiwa & recently bought new belts to get it working again!
You are going to be fine, lad. I'm sure of it. Glad to see you back. Take your time, Don't stress about getting us some content. But it's going to be fine man. Be safe
Pretty sure I had the same Lasky's catalogue (albeit from a Peterborough branch). Used to spend hours staring at it (and the Dixons, Maplin, any other brochure I could get). Treated myself to a tiny Panasonic personal stereo with a gumstick battery when I saved up, but it would have been much later. Younger sister borrowed it for a school trip, never saw it again. Glad to see you're back, look after yourself.
Thanks, glad you are feeling better, coming from an 80 year old Disabled American Veteran, born in London UK during WWII, but that's another story. I had a nice Aiwa portable cassette player recorder with Dolby and a digital display with Solenoid Controls back in 1985, when novel cassette devices were at their peak. I also had a Sony CFS-D7 Cassette Corder which was a silver colored Boom Box which at J&R electronics in Manhattan downtown cost about $400.09 US then, about a weeks pay back then Now I obtained one from Japan which only receives FM up to about 90 MHz from 76 MHz then used in Japan. It has Dolby B, even a Ferri- Chrome Type III tape selector, and Solenoid touch cassette controls, which now are a problem. Sony used to have repair around NYC. Local repair stores are unable to repair this feature. Even when I had my original US version over 40 years ago, the solenoid controls seized and could not be fixed by then a Sony, etc, repair facility in my area. 😊
Interesting video! And yes, there's a lot of modern bias when looking back at older things because what seems cool to us now isn't always what was most practical or desirable at the time. Hope you're feeling better, too!
I had one 😍 It was on sale for around £80 (about half price) and it was all the money I had at the time. I bought it, not so much that it was a twin-deck, but because it could record, actually quite well.
Wow, I owned a Sony WM-W800 in my university years! Loved it. I would listen to music one one cassette and record the occasional university lecture on the other cassette. Good times.
It's still pretty amazing that you could get a walkman just about the size of a cassette case. I remember telling my dad about one I'd seen. He told me to stop telling fibs!
Apologizing for your voice, very British of you!!! I’m sure like all the other fans, was just glad for another video before the end of the year! (Thought the travelogue might be it for 2024…. 😂 ). As always, thanks for making it!
I owned the Aiwa AD-WX 110 dual cassette machine, which would dub both sides simultaneously at double speed. I used to make copies of conference talks and sell them, copying hundreds of tapes at a time. It was a great machine! Used to use TDK SA for the masters (recorded on a lovely Marantz portable) and TDK D for the copies. I miss the cassette days!
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8:30 Matts invention for circumventing the copyright strikes by constantly changing the playbackspeed amazes me!
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Not so much wow as bloody hell!
Thanks for getting this one out, hope you feel better soon
sorry Deiner, what do you mean ?
@@DavidCanet To me this reads as a great example of understated sarcasm. I could be wrong, though.
When I was in 6th os 7th grade I found a walkman in a desk. I brought it home for the weekend and loved it. My parents didn't let me keep it, I had to bring it back and give to the lost and found office. The owner showed up within minutes after I dropped it off so I never got to keep it :( But I remembered the look and feel, it was magical. It was a Panasonic RQ-S33. It was not sold in my country, in fact I think it was a Japanese only model and the kid who owned it probably got it as a gift. My whole life I was dreaming about having a model like that, it was super slim, slick, soft touch, nothing I've ever seen before. Every walkman was so chunky, bulky, the machism was part of the button if you know what I mean. This one felt futuristic. And seeing your videos on vintage cassette players made me venture out and managed to snag one from Japan. This model is fairly pricy but after 25+ years I was able to get one, it wasn't a difficult repair to replace the belt and I spent the next couple of weeks listening to my old tapes. It was magical! I love walkmans that are almost as small as a cassette case, barely any width to them. I almost fell into the habit of walkman collecting, but luckily I quickly figured it out that this is now a really expensive hobby and I already have an expensive hobby with collecting old video games :)
Yeah unfortunately a lot of unscrupulous Ebay sellers are listing broken models at very high prices and the working models are even higher.
Great story! Thanks for sharing
My experience as well- sleek, precision design and function, never saw another again. Perhaps a Patreon contributor could ask Matt if familiar with the Toshiba KT-AS10- smaller than a cassette itself.
You actually stole
Good to see you back, Matt! RUclips is not the same without Techmoan.
Techmoan*
@@planetX15 or ss the puppet used to say "this Technoman"
Has not been any different. Really.
Good hearing your voice sir.
that's what I was thinking...when was this recorded?
Sounds so rich
The possibilities of running a middle school C64/ZX Spectrum bootlegging operation during recess... I would have been all over that!!!
You found the perfect use for this
I was thinking exactly the same thing when I saw this 😂
Sounds like your voice is back.
Plus, a super rare Tuesday video!
Christmas came early for me!
True... Could be sold on youtube for hundreds of not thusands.
Lovely to see a clip from The Forbin Project, a film years ahead of its time.
Absolute classic!
Strangely, I watched that film for the first time just a fortnight ago!
I hope you're feeling better and on your way to full recovery! Love your channel. You really do brighten people's day when your videos drop. I hope you know your work is much appreciated!
"One sold poorly, the other didn't sell as well."
I'm gonna steal that!
2:06 Fun Fact: in the 90's I used the motor, brass gears and rubber pulley band to create a battery powered petri dish spinner for plating bacteria in the lab. I was a Ph.D. student at the time. I still have that device too.
Thanks for our Christmas Present. Was not expecting another video before Christmas.
Just had a tooth pulled. No fun, all numbed up and awkward - seeing this in my subscription feed brightened up my mood dramatically!
Here is wishing u a full & speedy recovery mate. I know how that can be❤
Triple mind blown... didn't know about the double cassette walkman, didn't know about the other double cassette one, didn't know about "tuner packs" 🤯
definitely prefer the version with your voice over the ai text to speech
What are you all talking about in comments? There was a video where he did AI generated voice or what?
No, but apparently a lot of channels start doing it.
Although Mat has recently had problems with losing his voice, RUclips has been replacing original audio with an AI dubbed version for people in non English speaking countries.
@@nowsterReally? Didn't know about that. optional?
@@nowster you can choose the audio track and i GREATLY appreciate the feature. it allows me to share english video with my non-english speaking relatives who were previously locked into 3% of the world's content that is in portuguese. but oh boy the AI voice does suck
You, sir, get extra points for the Colossus reference. LOVE that movie.
your voice sounds bloody fine mate
RUclipsrs are too hard on themself
He sounds sick. I don't care about it but I do notice it.
@@Nostaljackstill sounds better than most folks anyway 😂
Time to record some peel removal voice overs 😂
Mat's calming, clear, Northern-accented voice is probably the main reason why I subscribed to his channel within 20 seconds of watching one of the earliest videos of his many, many years ago.
5:50 - Okay, my mind is properly blown right now. I never knew something like that existed. And the tuner wheel sticking out of the other side, like WHAT?!
Same!
I did not know about those, I would have bought one, I did a lot of tape to tape, recording off the radio, and creating music of my own
4:35 That's from "Colossus the Forbin Project"! I remember that one, only because it starred Eric Braeden, who acted in my mom's favorite soap opera "The Young and the Restless" as Victor Newman.
Great movie and so prescient!
Still king of creepiest computer voice in cinema
Thanks, I was going to ask.
Excellent movie, and it's actually a science fiction novel trilogy. I don't recall the quality of the writing, but the stories were interesting!
One of my favorite films. ❤
Wow, those are really cool! I bet Techmoan would love them!
your voice sounds more asmr than ever, a win in my books.
Ah, I see Mr. Sakamoto there...
Mat, I can hear that you still have a cold. But, I'm glad you're doing better!
There is nothing quite like 1980/90s portable music player engineering. It's almost a lost art. Sony, Aiwa, Panasonic, Toshiba-- so many insane designs. Thanks again, Mat. Hope you get well soon!
I use to love those cassette tapes with the reels inside them.. no wonder I loved physical media or looked amazing unlike a mp3
Always brightens my day up when Matt uploads a video. I wish I'd kept all the catalogues and brochures that I'd collected from Boots,etc. foolishly I threw them all out a few tears ago! Thank you for keeping yours. 😊👍🏻
Wow, this Text-to-Speech function in RUclips has really come into its own! Obligatory joke aside, it's great to hear you again Mat, and hope you're well onto recovery; if we don't get to hear from you again this month, have a Happy New Year too!
Early surface mount electrolytics are also, most probably, half dried, but more damagingly, they like to leak and destroy the PCB, and although in these machines they used mostly tantalums, allumunium are also present.
Hi Techmoan, if you're still looking for the smallest personal cassette player check out the Toshiba KT-AS10. It is so small that the cassette was bigger than the player, and it also came with a radio adapter!!
Thank you for not saying the wm10 as the smallest walkman the toshiba is the smallest but it's hard for people to know the insist the wm10 is the smallest but the kt as10 is the smallest
glad to see/hear you're doing better! take your time to heal and don't overdo it, we'll all still be here waiting for you ❤
Ciertamente, poder oír tus vídeos en el lenguaje de Cervantes es estupendo, aunque llevo tanto tiempo escuchando tu voz con subtítulos, me quedo con tu voz.
Muchas gracias por tu esfuerzo en que más personas puedan ver tus vídeos.
Saludos desde Bilbao - España, ¡Feliz Navidad!
It's good to see you alive! Get completely well, please.
I had a Schneider twin-walkman from a coffee-shop selling additional junk. That horrible cheap machine had two decks, a radio and a copy function. Sound quality was horrible hissy with a lot of jitter, no matter if you listened via headphone or with the two built in speakers at both ends. It also scratched the tapes. Even the styroform pack was melted on the cover and the headphone.
I tried to give it back.
Love to see these things that either I had forgotten about, or that I didn't know existed. I had a couple Walkmans back in my day. The one that stands out was the big sports model. At a time when they were getting smaller, here comes this very chunky yellow model of I remember correctly, that was water proof, or at least, splash proof.
I remember when you posted that video 7 years ago, I can’t believe it’s been that long!
There was definitely a use case for these. I worked at a music store in the mall in the very early 90s and kids would have these. They would buy a cassette, go out to the mall, make a dub in one of these devices, then come right back in and return the cassette. OK it also happened with double cassette boom boxes but these were more discrete and I definitely remember more than one kid pulling the buy-dub-return shenanigans with these!
Might also be convenient at copying friends' tapes at school.
Also, Phish heads at concerts could share tapes.
Funny where I live, "dub" is a music genre 😂
I had a discman and minidisc for this purpose, ehh, golden days gone by...
This is why I wanted one when I saw it. Then guy at my local music shop would have been cool with letting me do it too. Think he got fired because he was selling mix tapes too.
Duplicating was extra, but possibly to hear 120 minutes of music in one case that was something
@mauritsvw I know but I'm afraid that walkman mechanism may struggle with such tapes
But in the same space you could have had one of those Grundig slim-walkmans and a second tape in it's box.
HE'S BACK! And you have no need to apologize for your voice, just as fabulous as usual. Good to see you're doing better.
I too am in the final stages of a stinking cold, so you have all the sympathy, good to see you back.
Matt. Those glasses are amazing. You look like a KING!
Your voice returned? i am happy. Best wishes man.
Well that was a very pleasant surprise - a new Techmoan video on a Tuesday! Glad to hear you're on the mend now, and the voice sounds just fine to me. Been a subscriber and viewer for years, always enjoy your videos no matter what the subject. The only channel I've got set up to notify me of new videos. Thank you for what you do and I hope that you and Mrs Techmnoan have a very Merry Christmas 🎄
The _Techmoan_ sequel nobody asked for, but everyone wanted!
Feel better, Mat!
Glad your on the mend Mat, I've just had the flu, no fun! Was a treat to have a new video on a Tuesday!
Merry Christmas, Mat. I've become a huge fan of yours over the last few months and I want you to know that I appreciate all that you've done
Get well soon
Good to have you back, sir, and glad you’re on the mend.
I was chewing my dinner when you played that player with the warped music and almost choked from laughter😅
Wow, great to have you back with more great content! Thanks!
I hope you fully recover soon!
Just when I thought I'd worked out when the bins go out during Christmas and New Year, the holiday confusion continues with a Tuesday Techmoan!
Not that I'm complaining:)
Came for did cats go to the moon?
Stayed for Techmoan
What a unexpected Tuesday night treat
I hope you get better soon Matt. You are by far my favorite RUclipsr.
I loved the little Collosus:The Forbin Project cameo 😉
Nice clip of Colossus as well as a great video
The collection you collect makes me jealous.. Thank you so much for the journey through this era's technology. I am a millennial so I had a very good share of it through my father.
I bought the Sony new when I was on holiday in USA (NYC). I was 16 at the time. I used it a lot during high school years. Never seen another one here in Europe - only recently they have been popping up in RUclips videos. I still have mine and it still works even though it has never been serviced.
I'm glad your voice is back, good sir!
Glad your feeling better! Your voice was just fine! Thanks for this episode… interesting stuff! 🙂
glad to hear your voice is back feel better
Great to see and hear you back again.
So glad to see that you're on the mend Mat. Thanks for the video. ♥
Radio tuner packs as a concept have blown my mind!! I absolutely have to find one now 😂
8:30 I swear, that's exactly the music I hear in my head before I have my first coffee in the morning!
I hope you get better soon I love your work following you since your first video god bless you
The coolest player I had in my youth - the headphones were not plugged in, but were already inside the player, wound on a hidden spring reel. You had to pull it out from the inside like a tape measure. And after listening, you pressed the button on the player to retract the wire (the earphones themselves were parked in the recesses of the player's body).
Glad you feeling better.
And as always, thanks for your video!
I still remember hanging out in the Walmart electronic section as a kid lusting after the Sony Walkman. It was the most compact one there but it was $40 and that was out of my price range. I ended up getting a RCA portable cassette player for $20 And it ended up being a fantastic unit that lasted many years!
Glad you're feeling a bit better and that you posted a video. 🙂I hope you have a great Christmas holiday.
Around 1990 I had a Toshiba walkman with FM radio insert. It was very small, very slim. If I remember correctly, a cassette would stick out a bit, the radio fitted flush. A really beautiful little machine, that I unfortunately broke and threw away.
God I love this channel so much
Haha…I love the stretch limo with a hot tub analogy! 😂😂😂
😃I remember that in 1990 a friend arrived at school with a Sony Walkman, probably not for the European/Italian market, because when he took it to a Sony center they were surprised and amazed at how small it was and that no one knew anything about it, I think it came from a trip of a relative of his to Japan, it was similar to the Grungig in the video with AA battery in the external support, light in color and could record in stereo, the case of the audio cassette itself seemed like the Grundig, I have never been able to find it in photos on the net.
Didn't expect this video. Voice over is surprisingly good. It needs longer gaps, IMO, but that shouldn't take away from knowing you're still out there doing your thing.
I remember those portable tape players with optional radio packs. I have an 80s Toshiba Stereo Cassette Player KT-S3 with FM stereo tuner pack RP-S2. The size of a cassette and just plugs into the casetter deck like a normal casette. With a cutout in the cassette lid to allow you to change the station withou having to open it or remove the fancy protective cover.
Good to get you back online. We need someone to moan about tech.. merry Christmas 🎄
Glad you are doing better. I had to laugh at "the stretch limo with the hot tub in the back". What a mental picture that is!
Glad to hear that your voice came back, Mat!
Merry Christmas old bean, glad to hear you're on he mend, thanks for a great year of content, looking forward to next year.
Good to see you back. Now you don't have to change your channel name to Techwhisper.
Yes! A Techmoan video sometime other than Saturday morning!
Health problems aside (& very selfishly), thanks for still doing videos mate 👍. Also - love the Hamilton/Pulsar LED watch
I have one of those SONY portable dual cassette decks that I bought new in the 1980s, and you totally missed one of the uses of it that it was absolutely wonderful for. Live recordings. I loved that little device! (Mine no longer works either, but I got far more than my money's worth out of it!) The tiny microphone it came with is far better than one would expect from such a small thing. While its duplication obviously wasn't comparable to a regular full-sized deck, it was still useful to have when travelling - and that's where I used it.
I was going to music conventions during that time, and have over a hundred tapes of live music that are considered part of a precious and rare archive now by the community, thanks to that little device.
Granted, better recordings could have been made with less portable equipment, but sometimes the circumstances at the conventions wouldn't have accomodated that as well. I could carry the Walkman in my pocket, and could activate it very quickly any time someone started singing or playing in the hallways, or if an impromptu jam session broke out.
Your mention of Central Radio on Shudehill, Manchester brought back some memories.
It always blows my mind to see how small cassette portables actually got. I grew up in the 90s, and by the time I got my first and only Walkman, these were mostly just cheap devices you gave your kid, because you didn't want them ruining an expensive Discman or something. Naturally, it's one of those late 90s chonkers from Sony that all used the same mechanism, all plastic construction, no convenient features like auto-reverse, etc. I would've loooooved something more akin to the Aiwa you showed.
I also had no idea radio add-ons were even a thing. Granted, I've always kind of hated the radio, so I suppose it wouldn't have been on my radar anyway.
I wonder if there was ever a double recorder in this form factor for interviewing purposes. Either for immediately having two copies at one's disposal or to ensure redundancy in case one of the tapes snapped or got mangled without the interviewer noticing.
Or if Perhaps a Recording Were Confiscated By The Authorities😮🐙🦅🤡🍆👀
In the early 1980s, my brother-in-law sourced for me from Japan a Walkman style cassette-recorder after I asked him about buying one with a drop-in tuner, but he returned with an Aiwa CS-J1 which had a built-in FM tuner, plus the ability to play Meta-bias tapes & record in stereo onto normal tapes! Still have the Aiwa & recently bought new belts to get it working again!
You are going to be fine, lad. I'm sure of it. Glad to see you back. Take your time, Don't stress about getting us some content. But it's going to be fine man. Be safe
Wow, not every day you see a reference to the Forbin Project. Great stuff.
Pretty sure I had the same Lasky's catalogue (albeit from a Peterborough branch). Used to spend hours staring at it (and the Dixons, Maplin, any other brochure I could get). Treated myself to a tiny Panasonic personal stereo with a gumstick battery when I saved up, but it would have been much later. Younger sister borrowed it for a school trip, never saw it again.
Glad to see you're back, look after yourself.
Thanks, glad you are feeling better, coming from an 80
year old Disabled American
Veteran, born in London UK
during WWII, but that's another
story.
I had a nice Aiwa portable cassette player recorder
with Dolby and a digital
display with Solenoid
Controls back in 1985,
when novel cassette
devices were at their
peak.
I also had a Sony CFS-D7
Cassette Corder which was
a silver colored Boom Box
which at J&R electronics in
Manhattan downtown cost
about $400.09 US then, about
a weeks pay back then
Now I obtained one from
Japan which only receives
FM up to about 90 MHz
from 76 MHz then used
in Japan.
It has Dolby B, even a Ferri-
Chrome Type III tape selector,
and Solenoid touch cassette
controls, which now are a
problem.
Sony used to have repair
around NYC.
Local repair stores are
unable to repair this feature.
Even when I had my original
US version over 40 years
ago, the solenoid controls
seized and could not be
fixed by then a Sony, etc,
repair facility in my area. 😊
Oh wow, look who uploaded on a Tuesday night
Glad to see your on the mend Matt!!! I never knew these portable exsisted till I had seen them on your videos!!
Interesting video! And yes, there's a lot of modern bias when looking back at older things because what seems cool to us now isn't always what was most practical or desirable at the time. Hope you're feeling better, too!
Honestly I didn't notice your voice, sound great as always!
I had one 😍 It was on sale for around £80 (about half price) and it was all the money I had at the time. I bought it, not so much that it was a twin-deck, but because it could record, actually quite well.
I bought this sony from my hard owned holiday-job money in 1985 😎🤗
Also recorderd some live concerts with it.
How proud I was 😇
Wow, I owned a Sony WM-W800 in my university years! Loved it. I would listen to music one one cassette and record the occasional university lecture on the other cassette. Good times.
It's still pretty amazing that you could get a walkman just about the size of a cassette case. I remember telling my dad about one I'd seen. He told me to stop telling fibs!
4:33 Ah, Colossus: the forbin project. Great Film!
Love that fkick. Shout out to Lawrence Hall of Science!
I enjoyed the reference.
I had a slim Aiwa cassette player. Not top of the range but still not that much bigger than the cassette case. Absolutely loved it
Apologizing for your voice, very British of you!!! I’m sure like all the other fans, was just glad for another video before the end of the year! (Thought the travelogue might be it for 2024…. 😂 ). As always, thanks for making it!
I owned the Aiwa AD-WX 110 dual cassette machine, which would dub both sides simultaneously at double speed. I used to make copies of conference talks and sell them, copying hundreds of tapes at a time. It was a great machine! Used to use TDK SA for the masters (recorded on a lovely Marantz portable) and TDK D for the copies. I miss the cassette days!
Good to see you back Matt!
The overall vibe of it puts me in mind of that one boombox with the three cassette mechs in it. Sort of an "A, cool! But B, actually why?" :)