I've got a box of similar Walkmans CDV, mostly freebies or very cheap. They look cool in photos but the build quality is definately mass-production. I would have stayed with my trusted Sanyo Sportster, the $40 USD model wasn't too bad and if it got dropped or smashed, it wasn't too big of a deal, most of mine would last close to two years. Back then the $30 price difference was huge. Minimum wage here was $4.25/hour, I was working through school making about $75/week. I'd love to see the actual build numbers for Walkmans over the years and the countries they shipped to. I think a lot of people were moving to portable CD players that were now under $100 USD, some had decent skip protection.
Stereoplay from 1982 Heft 9, the Sony WM-F2, I loved portables with a radio since I couldn't afford new batteries every other day.
Telefunken CFM-3 from 1982, Stereoplay Magazine. I don't know if the CX decoder goes with it, wasn't that for a high fidelity record format?
This is not such an old article, but I would like to have the full article. As I don't live in Germany, I can't go for a 30 day free subscription: 40 Jahre Walkman: Ein Schweinfurter sammelt und kennt alle (mainpost.de) If somebody has access to the full article, please send me a message.
....and a translation! AUTO, do you and this guy race down the autobahn listening to your car's tape decks?
Audio Magazine (Germany) 1983, if you didn't know, the Sound Burger just had a limited edition reissue, watch Techmoan on YouTube for more information!
Emiel, it looks like the page continuity is off but I can't read it, is the whole article there? https://archive.org/details/playboy-netherlands-1991-02/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
Seiko MGN-01M from 1983, a neat little watch that cold record 8 seconds of digital, disregard the "If" at the end, it goes into another product. We used to have fun with these similar recorders back then.
