In 2001 a new age dawned on the personal music listening public

My Panasonic RQ had just fell apart as it had shed itself of it's screws -

My Sony Discman - would play 1 and a half sides of a disc before battery would drain - and skiping was always an issue - so I had endured with tapes until now.

I decided I needed a new personal music player

I wanted the FUTURE

I didn't have an Apple Mac - so the new ipod didn't figure on my radar
also it was a big hard drive in a fisher price plastic case - how would that EVER catch on?

So clever clogs here - walked into his local Sony centre and bought this for 250 English pounds:

*pics being loaded*

TEASER

You don't need a Apple/mac for the new ipod classic, they work on a regular PC to. Interested to see what you bought at the Sony service center for $250 bucks?

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retrodos
in 2001 there was no ipod classic - just the new on the market ipod
APPLE MAC compatible only i believe

So this was bought in 2001? Your right the first ipod had only firewire and work only on a MAC, if it a Sony. Is it a minidisc recorder by chance?

nope
My mate was showing off in a pub with his new Sony discman which was wafer thin

I walked in with this

64mb Memory stick inserted I could have almost 2 hours of music with me
and it was as small and as perfectlly formed as a Ronson cigarette lighter

with cool blue LED's - no moving parts - this I thought WAS the future.

Sony shop didn't warn me about ATRAC though - or MAGIC GATE security or how crap battery life was.

Servers me right being early adopter - not really done it since.

Didn't get a digital camera until 2006 for that very reason - no had decided what was std memory cards (they still haven't - luckily my first Canon used Compact flash - so does my current Nikon)

64 MEG!

I really thought memory sticks were gonna be the new album format

then memory stick 2 came out - not recognised by this model walkman - so the biggest memory stick this could read was 256 - which cost over 140 pound a stick back then!!!

minidisk? 

dont beat yourself up badger.............this my friend was the beginning of the future......

chances are that if it wasnt for this little sony, the ipod would never have been born at all........

we have all made bad purchases even me....so just remember the look on your friends faces when you walked in the pub with this.........

oh and you are a vdubber like me........that counts for a lot.........chin up pall

LOL
I scoffed at minidisk owners - shameless milking of the dying optical disk format

and don't get me started on blu ray
MEDIA IS DEAD
love live flash memory for the masses!

Me?

I'm sticking to cassette, film and vinyl

I even made a bigger mistake, a creative nomad jukebox, even thru it held alot of music and sounded pretty good, the frimware was crap, would freeze up on a regular basis, was slow and lucky to get thru the day, with only 3 hour battery life, before you needed to recharge.

WOAH!
look at that bohemoth!

The NW mp3 player was good coz it was small

What was the nomad's USP?

Model number was DAP6G01 held 6gb of music, was huge, but at the time didn't really mine the size, was looking for something that could store alot of music for on the go and main reason why I bought it. Used a good DAC CS4341 24-bit/96khz and did support Linear PCM with later firmware revision. Just battery life was always poor. This was the better alternative to the lousy minidisc, or mindisk, how ever you say it, the only minidisc, or mindisk that is worth talking about is the HiMD, which Sony came out way to late with and their stupid DRM that restricted the device.

The only Minidisc recorder that actually pretty good, but came out to late and format failed. Held 1gb of data, more then a CD and very well design DSP and DAC and Sony finally did away with the stupid DRM protection on this device, but still was to late!! But this was their last recorder but also, their best!! It was a master masterpiece, was very easy to record even in the dark, due to the OLED display and can set level on the fly. Bought this to record interviews, always record audio separate from video for post production on bigger projects, now a Zoom H2 and H4N took it place!!

That £250 Sony 'Network Walkman' was a bargain compared to how much an iPod cost back in 2001, especially as you needed to buy a Mac to make the thing work at all (firewire only as well).
Look at it this way: at least that Sony is still viable now, not like a Sony Betamax VCR 
In 2001 I was still using a discman - an older one that took 4 AAs, but coped with rechargeables, thank goodness.

Back then, my brother was in the same boat & bought a Creative Zen Jukebox, which worked with his PC & had better on-board EQ then the awful iPod EQ settings (which are still rubbish to this very day). The Zen only packed up recently, giving around 10 years good service.
That said, my iPod 5th gen is still going strong, since Apr '07...

I always felt that Minidisc could've done alot better if Sony had removed all copy protection cr4p, like they did with CD-R.

Ah well, same old Sony, eh?

Mind you, CD-R had the massive advantage of full, built-in PC compatibility & also the CD-Rs played on alot of peoples existing CD players (if you burned 'em right). Some of my 80s boomers play CD-Rs just fine. 

This is not a Walkman, it does not belong in the Walkman section

Sony should have realised early on that being late to a market means that the product would invariably be inferior.

i totally agree with chris......

i bought a sony tablet (like the ipad) and it was launched in october.............by now, most manufacturers have been making them for some time now........

Check the box genius - it's a walkman

and if I recall - one of the first slim memory stick based mp3 players

everything else was hdd based - how quaint

Garlic bread. It`s the future.

What ! ?

I can see it now: 
iBread, Garlic edition.

garlic?

bread???

a big hard drive in a fisher price plastic case

Classic