A teenager has traded in his iPod for a Walkman, a first-generation walkman.
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the
tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the
metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but
later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two
different types of cassette.
We weren't sophisticated like that back in the old days. When I was young, we had to walk to school, uphill both ways, and we could only put approximately 2 full albums on a tape. Egads! But give the kids some credit: he figured out how to make it shuffle:
Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn't is
"shuffle", where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a
function that, on the face of it, the Walkman lacks. But I managed to
create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down "rewind" and
releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.
HT Instapundit. I can't remember if I had a first-generation Walkman, but I remember getting one for Christmas way back in the day. I fondly remember listening to Loverboy's Everybody's Working for the Weekend. But don't tell anyone about the Loverboy. It's our little secret.