Hi All,

I can credit Walkgirl for getting me started with my Walkman collection, after seeing her videos on YouTube. However my collecting has started off some collecting of other Vintage Items (all Sony of course). Has this been the case with anyone else?

OH MY "Pandora'a Box" is opened. YES is the answer as my Walkman collecting starting 2 years ago ( now 331 ) has spawned into Portable CD Players 8, MiniDisc Players 4, Portable Digital Compact Cassette DCC , Portable speakers 80's 6 and Portable TV's 4. OH and six mini BOOMBOXES!

But some of us are born with this desire to "COLLECT" so the walkman for me is another addiction OH MY !!! Hey some of us are preserving HISTORY... not sure why grin because we can and it makes us feel happy, accomplished, building a legacy ,financial gain, who knows. Different for us all I bet.
Here is what I have collections of oldest first. 36 YEARS !!!
BTW I focus on one for few years and move on it seems.

1. Wild T Shirts 36
2. Cameras 7 not pictured
3. Colored Gemstones ( not pictured)
4. Antique Phone
5. 70 & 80's Stereo Equipment (not pictured)
6. Crystals and Rocks (not pictured)
7. Early Gaming Systems
8. Vaseline Glass
9. WALKMAN
10. Portable CD players
11. Mini Disc portable players
12. Portable DCC
13. Mini Boomers JAZZRAT got me started!!
14. Portable TV's
15. Magnets Refrigerator every place visited USA, CANADA, EUROPE,CENTRAL AMERICA, CARIBBEAN 160
16. Mirrored Sunglasses 80's not pictured

National Archive of Outdated Technology and Things

WILD SHIRTS have 36( Different image each side) Look up Liquid Blue online
Yes THE LAST WHO CONCERT IN USA I bought it in 82!


TELEPHONE 1895 Ericson
Made in Sweden by A.B.L.M.
> Ericsson & Co. Stockholm Patented Oct. 29, 1895 The earliest phones the systems ONLY were in largest cities and you could only call within the city. This is such a phone one of FIRST!


EARLY ATARI 2600 many rare accessories and 124 games 1977 including Swedish PORNOGRAPHIC GAME
NOTE : Arcadia SUPERCHARGER 1982 which used a WALKMAN with program on cassette tape uploads into supercharger from walkman this increased memory ability several fold allowing much better graphics and game control. WOW
The Starpath Supercharger was an add-on for the Atari 2600 video game console that expanded the machine capabilities by adding more RAM, allowing for higher resolution graphics and larger games, and by providing a connector to which a regular cassette player could be connected, thus permitting larger games, stored on tape, to be loaded. The Supercharger was connected to the Atari's cartridge slot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600







3DO PANASONIC First CD ROM game system 1993 !!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3...eractive_Multiplayer



ULTRA RARE 3DO Steering Wheel 1 of 250

VASELINE GLASS "radioactive"
Started in 1800 (much earlier examples 79 AD) with up to 2% depleted Uranium Dioxide. Yes can register on a Geiger counter. Under Black Light UV or sunlight GLOWS a beautiful green. Comes in Shades of green and yellow. My oldest is vase from 1884.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass






WALKMAN cases Boxed and much not shown




ELECTROPHONIC my first decent stereo age 14 "1971" YES real WOOD ! Higher end stereo not pictured




YOUTUBE VIDEOS Equipment and Walkmans
Sony PS-X600 BioTracer Turntable
http://www.youtube.com/user/Th...er#p/u/5/0ysa8ASU8V4

SONY D-700 1986 Smallest high end early CD player
http://www.youtube.com/user/Th...er#p/u/6/otMxz5SK1To

REFRIGERATOR MAGNETS
One from each place visited 160 +

Wow, what can I say. I certainly haven't collected as many different things. It is rather addictive to collect though :-).

I'm actually s bit scared

Wow that is some collection, particularly like the Atari and the Walkman section.

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Originally posted by agentorange:
I'm actually s bit scared

my 120+ boomboxes are gone, most of my antiques thrown away or sold, the zippos sold, vintage hifi reduced to the set i use, now with just my two motorbikes, my two old cars and a few thousand vinyls i'm a free man...


ooh, those walkman i own - not forgotten, but they fit in a few boxes in the closet...

Good to know I'm not alone...

I've always been interested in audio stuff, but I guess what eventually set me off was my passion for "80s childhood cassette audio books". I had plenty stowed away in a box for some 20+ years and when I dug them out about a year ago I was thinking about the walkmans I'd had back then...

Looked for them in the basement, found some, cleaned them, fixed them. Now I'm a collector, infected with the WM-Virus.

Funnily, my newly found passion for WMs spawned a little...I now have a keen eye on MD-Players, Boomboxes, tapes and headphones, too.

I guess it's all about the memories. The 80s were a great time. Boring, but great

That Sony reel-to-reel is absolutely beautiful!