Any Walkmans collector here ?

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Hello,

I am collecting some rare vintage walkmans, principally the cassette/tape player. Sony is my brand that I mostly choose when getting a new unit.

Here is my starting collection of walkman, that I have got on eBay this month. All those units are in mint condition cosmetically speaking and fully working.

I am specialized only in the small sized ones.

1. Sony walkman :


From left to right :

- WM-702F
- WM-702
- WM-B603
- WM-2091




- WM-702F. This unit comes fully boxed.


- WM-702


- WM-B603


- WM-2091

More to come 🙂

Anyone down there that is sharing the same hobby ?

Cheers,

Guy

 

you just struck gold with the owners of Beocentral... 😂

www.walkmancentral.com

The usual level of detail, honest reviews and factual information as Beocentral, but for Walkmans! Enjoy!!

Lee

(The ex-owner of a WM-DC2 throughout his late teens!)

 

peter!

Yes Guy, you need to send a message to Tim Jarman.
He is passionate about Walkmans (or is it Walkmen?), I've seen some of his collection.
You could contact him through link from Beocentral

Andy T.

Thanks you all,

I will go to the suggested links !

It's a pleasure to know that I am not alone to collect the walkmans 🙂

I often go to this website :

http://stereo2go.com and its forum regarding the walkman section.

There is an interesting website that gives you a nice description of the Sony Walkman :

- http://bbs.pcpop.com/060430/22997.html

Here is a place to share you walkmans photos : http://www.shizaudio.ru/wm/index.php

A fan's website of walkmans : http://www.geocities.jp/wm_fun/

Cheers,

Guy HUI

P.S : by the way, if you are willing to sell me some of your units, thanks to PM me.

9 LEE wrote:

you just struck gold with the owners of Beocentral... 😂

www.walkmancentral.com

The usual level of detail, honest reviews and factual information as Beocentral, but for Walkmans! Enjoy!!

Lee

(The ex-owner of a WM-DC2 throughout his late teens!)

 

 

I have one of those in my top drawer Lee, I'm sure it still works, great piece of kit!

 

Ooh, the WM-DC2! I really wanted one o those, but I went for the WM-F5 instead. I actually tried mine last summer, and it still worked fine even though it's been unused since 1992. I've still got all the packaging etc somewhere...

I had so many walkman, i can't remember all ....

Many SONY but my favorite brand was AIWA.

I remember the first walkman with remote (wire) , and woman voice synthetiser when you push play, rewind or radio, it was a AIWA  for 500 euros in 1988....

I remeber a toshiba who was more little tha the tape and so many other.

I keep only one ...............THE WALKMAN !!!!

Whouaaa.... Rachid you have the first Sony walkman (that was launch the 1rst of July 1979), the TPS-L2 🙂

Is this unit working fine ?

And regarding to the Toshiba that is smaller than a tape, it's the Toshiba KT-AS10 :

 

Or the Hitachi CP-88R :

Cheers,

Guy

Hello,
Here is my two new babies. Those ones are in mint condition, meantime the belt on the WM EX48 is broken but this unit still works fine (Play, FW, RW, autoreverse). It just needs a replacement belt.

The WM WM-RX-77 is a true gem for me, everythings works fine, the recording function, the MIC is working, the remote control, all is fine.

WM-EX48::





WM-RX77::




I am on my way to get on eBay the next ones.

Cheers,

Guy

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