• Silverchase@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      9 days ago

      Yeah but cassettes were still around. Unless you had mini CDs, cassettes were the way to go if you wanted music in your pocket.

      • Dremor@lemmy.worldM
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        7 days ago

        I still gave my trusty cassette player from back then. Still works great, and sound is quite good for something that old.

        Well, it has some features you don’t see anymore on “modern” cassettes players (DTS, Dolby, things like that), all in a miniaturized and portable case.

    • edible_funk@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Yeah but they skipped like fuckin crazy if you breathed on em wrong unless you shelled out extra for one with skip protection. Haven’t thought about skipping CDs in twenty years.

    • plutopos@lemmy.zip
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      9 days ago

      The original Cassette Beasts was set in a land outside of space and time with many people coming from the modern days, sci-fi futures, or even medieval fairytales

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        9 days ago

        That I don’t remember getting until about 06. But the coolest thing about the one I got, it had two parts. The first part was the main body where you put your headphones jack. The second part connected to the first with a standard USB port, and that was where the flash storage was. So it was basically a bog standard USB drive, you plug it into your computer, load MP3s on it, and plug it back into the player. If a whole 64 MEGABYTES wasn’t enough for you, you could just carry multiple sticks. Genius design, wish I still had that thing.

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I found my old Sony Walkman a year or so ago, lurking in a box in my mum’s garage. It was one of the ones that had a radio built in too, loved that thing way back.