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Your Chance to Own the Greatest Portable of All Time

post #1 of 29
4/18/06 at 11:28am
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=9714434236


Or atleast, the craziest portable of all time. What was sony thinking?
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post #2 of 29
4/18/06 at 11:36am
I might have to bid on that, just because it is so strange.
-g
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post #3 of 29
4/18/06 at 11:40am
If I wouldn't have to deal with overseas shipping, I'd actually think about bidding on this. I always wanted one of these, since I saw one back in the eighties. Those old Discmen without shock-protection/buffer were not much good for portable use anyway, so I think it was not a big problem that you could not play full-size CDs with the Discman in your pocket. It was something to carry around and take out once you were seated in the train/plane/workspace/etc.

Björn
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post #4 of 29
4/18/06 at 11:43am
Nice collectable/conversation piece, but I don't see much value beyond that. It's not known as one of the better sounding Discmans anyway, AFAIK...
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post #5 of 29
4/18/06 at 12:26pm
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Originally Posted by Coltrane
What was sony thinking?
Texas Chainsaw Massacre... Portable.
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post #6 of 29
4/18/06 at 12:35pm
That is an awesome design. Looks likes the predecessor of the mini-disc player.
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post #7 of 29
4/18/06 at 12:56pm

word up on the bandsaw CD player!

yeah,
You can watch the video on that auction...goes to yourtube I think for the streaming..funny. I am so pathetic that I had already seen this auction before clicking on the link in post, and that is sad.


"the PCDP collector may die within thou, but the hunter remains eternally"
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post #8 of 29
4/18/06 at 1:53pm
that is very cool, I'd like to walk around carrying that thing. makes it REALLY easy to scratch a CD though, and you can't put it into a bag.
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post #9 of 29
4/18/06 at 2:03pm
I dont think theres anything extremely rare about that??? (duncan, filburt, insomniac pls correct me if I am wrong). Finding one in working condition is semi-difficult. Ive seen a couple of those on ebay each month.

Garrett
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post #10 of 29
4/18/06 at 2:18pm
thanks for reminding me. i've wanted one of these for about 20 years.
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post #11 of 29
4/18/06 at 6:46pm
It looks like an MD player on drugs.
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post #12 of 29
4/18/06 at 7:10pm
The D-88, one of Sony's two 3" inch PCDPs and no it's not really rare as it does show up on Ebay as often as the D-555. A cool and unique vintage PCDP that sounds better than most of Sony's other vintage PCDP line up, I currently own three of them.
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post #13 of 29
4/18/06 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by warubozu
The D-88, one of Sony's two 3" inch PCDPs and no it's not really rare as it does show up on Ebay as often as the D-555. A cool and unique vintage PCDP that sounds better than most of Sony's other vintage PCDP line up, I currently own three of them.
The other was the D-82, right? ;-)

Now if only they could make one that would play MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, & FLAC on a mini-DVD or mini-Blu-ray Disc... ;-)
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post #14 of 29
4/18/06 at 10:06pm
I had one of those when they were new. They were released right at the time the first 3" cds were introduced as "cd singles". The player even came with a a sampler cd. Using those cd's it was pretty cool.

The bad thing with mine was that people would go to grab it, usually followed by a grinding noise as the Cd scraped against case or the momentum would flip it out of their hands.

Amazingly that design made a comeback with the initial rise of MP3 cd players. I think phillips or compaq??? made it that go around.

I still think it is cool looking
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post #15 of 29
4/18/06 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by adam917
The other was the D-82, right? ;-)

Now if only they could make one that would play MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, & FLAC on a mini-DVD or mini-Blu-ray Disc... ;-)
That is correct, the D-82 was the first of the two 3" vintage PCDP from Sony and is the harder to find of the two. In IMHO the D-82 ranks right up there along with the Sony D-J50 and D-E905/900 in terms of rarity.
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