If you're under 25 years old you've probably never seen one of these in person. It's called a Discman and it's a technological dinosaur. If you're a bit older you may remember owning one of these little gems. I dug this one out of the attic. The next stop is the trash.
I respect the wizards at Sony but this was a mistake. At the time we thought CD's were so great - a huge upgrade from cassette tapes - and so much smaller than LP's (that's "Long Playing" records for the youth readership). You could jump back and forth between songs easily, no bunched up tape, no warping. Genius right? Well maybe in a conventional CD player. In one of these contraptions though - totally sucky. Ant farts could make the freakin' thing skip. It was virtually impossible to listen to a whole CD without it jumping around. So thank you Steve Jobs. I love my iPod and I can't wait to see what makes it the next hunk of plastic on the technology scrap heap.
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