Gadget edition. This wasn't my first Walkman but it was

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Gadget edition.

This wasn't my first Walkman but it was the best. It was a real beauty, a pinnacle of Japanese engineering. Small, light and the touch controls worked like a precision instruments. It cost approximately $120 in today's money.

I spent the time after downloading illegal MP3s and recording the best tracks on 90 minute metal cassettes. Sometimes I recorded late night techno specials from radio. On my way to school and during breaks I would listen to them sick tunes. The bad boys at school would ask what I'm listening to and call my music weird.

This was quite exactly 20 years ago and made me the man who I am now; thirty something and still on 4chan.