Dan Frakes wrote:
> To be honest, what amazes me is that CD was *ever* a popular portable
> medium. It would be difficult to design a medium *worse* for portable use
> LOL
The very first CD player that I ever owned was a portable. It was the
(probably original) Sony portable. It was not called a DiscMan at that
time. I paid $300 for it.
It was a piece of sh!t. The buttons were chrome plated and if you had any
carpet in your house or had a sweater on it was a magnet for static
electricity (the kind that gave you a shock that knocked you on your ass.
This immediately blew the player! Another piece of Sony dreck. But it came
with a nice carrying case and a decent set of headphones. Compared to the
cassette it was a big improvement.
But to get to your point, actually portable CD players were not very popular
when they were introduced. As us said, surprisingly they caught on (and they
didn't even have a buffer in them back then!-the very first MD portables had
a 10 second buffer).
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