Kent, you have an incredible collection. I cannot imagine how much time (and money) it must have cost to build this collection, most likely the...
[ATTACH] My WM-805 did not work so I did some refurbishment. It's running now, but the wireless link is still a challenge. I would not be...
[ATTACH] Well, by stacking 3 PCBs, one of which has a glob-top ASIC for the LCD control, and the others saying "Mitsumi". Later models also...
[ATTACH] Opening up the remote. How did they squeeze all this wonderful functionalty - including local DBB, headphone amp, LCD and wireless...
[ATTACH] It's a smart move from Sony to use an LCD with symbols, as it's consuming orders of magnitudes less than LEDs in this use case. I...
[ATTACH] The remote takes a shorter version of the regular gumstick battery, and as far as I know we cannot buy those new anymore. If anybody...
[ATTACH] The remote control is "programmed" and ready to go. Don't you just love this small device with its pretty buttons and tiny screen? The...
[ATTACH] We know these dipswitches from computer mainboards back then. In this case, there were 4 bits for 16 unique codes. Sony called this...
[ATTACH] If you selected the right dipswitches that is.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The WM-805 is a well featured player with auto-reverse, logic control, dolby etc... and the main attraction is that it has a...
[ATTACH] This is the WM-805, a rather plasticky walkman, but with a cool feature: It's wireless!
[ATTACH] A red one that is. This one is used and not fully complete, but it does come in the original box. The boxes in this era were just so cool!
[ATTACH] Let's switch randomly to... the WM-805.
[ATTACH] Some NT tapes. They came in boxes of four, and some tapes are all alone in such a box with some room for labels and notes. 60, 90 or...
Coming back to the NT1 Scoopman for a moment. I knew I had the box of one of the NT1 Scoopmans but I kept it elsewhere, here it is: [ATTACH]...
[ATTACH] Another small brochure in the WM-30 box. Speakers and trains. That was the WM-30 unboxing, hope you liked it.
[ATTACH]We also find a brochure for portable speakers in the box. Interesting way to carry these SRS-30s.
[ATTACH] In the plastic bag we find a nice overview of living devices, all happy that the Sony briefcase guy is calling a woman. I have no clue...
[ATTACH]This is the "metal lines" or "brushed aluminum" or whatever it is called, that you saw on several mods of this era, which I really like.
[ATTACH] It's soooooo nice!
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