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velo solex engines as add ons to a bicycle
honda cub 50 scooters of '60's
mazda three wheeled pickup trucks
tatandaan ko, everytime bibili ako ng chocolate sa tindahan...i would buy SERG'S!
mas gusto ko sya kesa sa GOYA dati.:belat:
roadmaster bicycles
original matchbox from england
elpo shoes hehehe long long time forgotten
when you're hungry hmm papammm papammpam Cindy's is the place to be
[quote=rockiee_s;1494655]tatandaan ko, everytime bibili ako ng chocolate sa tindahan...i would buy SERG'S!
mas gusto ko sya kesa sa GOYA dati.:belat:[/qu
Oo di ko makalimutan tong Serg's kasi yung loob nito "ginagamit" namin dati....hahaha (taas ang kamay ng may alam)
Pompoms na chichiria
atsaka NUTRIVAN
chrismarte....di ko alam yun ah.
pa share naman....wala na namang serg's eh....hehehehe
tandaan ko pa ito dati, problema mabilis maubos ang battery:grin:
Source: www.inquirer.netQuote:
Walkman, 31: Sony pulls plug on iconic cassette player
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:40:00 10/27/2010
NEW YORK—The Walkman, the Sony cassette device that forever changed music listening before becoming outdated by digital MP3 players and iPods, has died. It was 31 years old.
Sony announced on Monday that it has ceased production of the classic, cassette tape Walkman in Japan, effectively sounding the death knell of the once iconic, now obsolete device.
Models on the company’s Japanese website were marked “production completed.”
The Walkman is survived by the Discman (still clinging to life) and ironic music listeners who think using a Walkman in this day-and-age is charmingly out-of-touch.
It will continue to be produced in China and distributed in the United States, Europe and some Asian countries. Digital Walkmans are also being made with models that display lyrics and have improved digital noise-canceling technology.
220 million units sold
Still, if you’re looking to chisel a date in the Walkman’s tombstone, then October 25, 2010, is as good as any. For many, that it’s taken this long is surprising: “They were still making those?” Perhaps October 23, 2001, the day the iPod was launched, is the better date of expiration.
But none of the success of Apple’s portable would have ever happened without the cassette Walkman. Some 220 million have been sold since the first model, the TPS-L2, debuted in July 1979. (It retailed for $200.) At the time, transistor radios were portable, but there was nothing widely available like the Walkman.
It was developed under the stewardship of Sony founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka. Morita insisted the device not be focused on recording but playback, a relatively odd notion at the time.
The July 1, 1979, rollout of the portable cassette player helped transform Sony into a global electronics powerhouse.
The Japanese giant sold 30,000 Walkmans in the first two months after its launch, and 50 million within a decade.
Immediate sensation
Ibuka came up with the idea for the gadget on one of his overseas trips, during which he used to listen to music on existing tape recorders that were too heavy to be considered truly portable.
Originally called the “Soundabout” in the United States, the Walkman was an immediate sensation and a revolution in music listening.
Foremost, it was portable. Music no longer needed to be something that one experienced sitting in a room, but could be blasted on the bus, pumped while jogging on a beach or played softly while studying.
By turning the volume up, anyone could be tuned out.
The detached teenager with foam earphones slouched in the back seat or bobbing his head in the elevator became an indelible image of the 1980s. (The first Walkman did have an orange “hot line” button to lower the music and increase the microphone so you could hear someone talking to you.)
Nostalgia for Walkman
Music, previously listened to in a room with shag carpeting and a stereo, was cast into the world, made a part of daily life. Pink Floyd could join a walk in the park, Public Enemy could soundtrack a commute.
More than portability, it fostered a personalization to music, a theme the iPod would also highlight in those early dancing silhouette ads.
A big reason there’s so much nostalgia for the Walkman today is because it eliminated any separation from music. It felt like an appendage, which is perhaps why some (with questionable fashion instincts) clipped theirs to their belt.
Everyone’s a romantic
The Walkman was also the father of the mixtape, an offspring that nearly trumps the progenitor. For the first time, music was something you could make yours by arranging it and swapping it.
For those young and unfamiliar with this process, making a mixtape typically entailed gathering songs by the Cure and Depeche Mode, labeling the tape with care and awkwardly giving it to a love interest.
The Walkman didn’t disappear so much as it was improved upon. Sony continues to use it as a brand, but the company long ago ceded hipness and style to Apple. The iPod will likely one day befall a similar fate, and another generation will gasp in joined wistfulness. When it comes to music and how we hear it, we’re all romantics. Reports from AP and AFP