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    walkman archive Administrator Staff Member

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    ... but I found a Sony WM-701C in a flea market in Barcelona. I’ve never thought I could find such model...
    Surprisingly it works after changing the belt!

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    TooCooL4 Well-Known Member

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    Nice :thumbsup2:
     
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    Excelente
     
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    Longman Well-Known Member S2G Supporter

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    That looks like an 8 track cartridge behind it. Perhaps the seller thought both items were equally worthless.
     
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    Nice find! I'd have bought the 8track cassettes too!

    The Tintin picture looks interesting too
     
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    Wow, I'm still looking....I haven't seen a nice portable in years. You better have grabbed those Pink Floyd 8-tracks, that would be worth investing in an 8-track boombox.
     
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    Thanks! I never found locally an interesting walkman (though I found some good decks) but seems that this time I was lucky :)
    I don't like earlier pink floyd albums but 8-track cartridges always look interesting. However, I only have one and no machine to play them. I'm not so interested in those, so I decided to pass. But I bet they are still there if I go for them :)
     
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    Floyd is not my favorite either but you'll never see those around here, if they are cheap I'l pick them up for entertainment value. I've got an 8-track boombox and Roberts Component Player, I just checked the price on those and someone must be getting into 8-tracks, they're not giving them away anymore.
     
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    Wow, nice find!
    Have not owned or even held that model Sony, I think it looks good build quality and design features!
    Lucky you!
     
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    Great find!!! Also good restraint to take the picture before you grabbed it...I always forget until I get whatever I found home!
     
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    Hi quite the same, but I know what I like and it all works out eventually,
    A real result that you did not have to re-cap,
     
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    I don't know what's under that pile..but I would have purchased every item in that photo.. that Pink Floyd 8-Track is very rare Spanish release..
    https://www.discogs.com/Pink-Floyd-Soundtrack-From-The-Film-More/release/12981618
    I have never seen a north american version of that on 8-track.
    The Sanyo is nice and of course yeah grab that Sony if it's under $50. What DID you pay for the Sony?

     
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    Honest question.. why is Tintin interesting? I found that cartoon excruciating even as a child..? What's the appeal?

     
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    I've read all the books and just like Tintin. The later cartoons are nothing like the books, the earlier cartoons are much better!

    At a guess I'd say that's the front cover of King Ottokar's Sceptre
     
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    ... oh ok !! Sounds like most long running series.. they get watered down. tin Tin wasn't really a big thing around here... I thought it was a British flavored comic? Cheers thanks for your reply.
     
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    How quaint, I see Pink Floyd as the best thing that happened to us since Bruckner and Miles (and Stravinsky, of course!) @Mister X what is your all-time fav? ;)

    "wish I were there", but then I would have had to buy yet another box to play those tapes!!!:(
     
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    They're not my favorite but I just saw Iron Maiden last week, unbelievable show, so many good songs!
     
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    Good to know! We are on the same page!!!
    But PF is still the best thing since ‘sliced bread’ for my uneducated ears!;)
     
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    I like the Floyd, I just never immersed in them, they were so huge with Brick in the Wall and the movie which played midnight movies for years with sell out crowds.
     
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    Tintin is a Belgian creation by Herge, he's been about since the 1930's! He's a reporter who generally pokes his nose in a lot of things and saves the day really! The problem with the cartoons is they tend to miss out a lot of the story, especially with the newer Elipse Nelvana versions, the older Tele Hauchette ( I think that's how its spelt!) versions are much closer to the source material and have a lot of charm about them.
     

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