[dkm24]

The first portable..

 

[hempcamp]

Army mess kit?

 

[dkm24]

This was the first portable anything. Made in Hungary in 1917!!!

 

[dkm24]

Or shall I say the first portable music player

 

[Sugano-san]

Pretty cool.

 

[dkm24]

it's called a Mikiphone.

http://www.rmrl.de/guest/grammo/grammo1/ch_e.htm

 

[Sugano-san]

The link sez it's a Swiss product introduced in 1926, so where do you get the Hungary 1917 theory from?!?

 

[dkm24]

That was a better picture. Here is the original.

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recordi...l.html#group07

 

[Duncan]

Hey... they're pretty damned cool...

but... where's the headphone jack?

...wonder how they sound...

 

[lini]

Looks like a portable gramophone (insight provided by NEC MultiSync P750 - I've really enjoyed the ChromClear-crts...

). Do you also know it's modern counter part in form of a VW "Bully" Bus, that was actually going aroung the records? I don't have a picture, but you could watch it in one of the Turntablerockers videos for the "Classic" cd... Should be "No melody", iirc...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[FrostyMMB]

Quote:

Originally posted by dkm24 That was a better picture. Here is the original. http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recordi...l.html#group07

Oh no, where did #5 go?!

 

[redshifter]

how many seconds of skip protection does it have?

 

[Duncan]

Quote:

Originally posted by FrostyMMB Oh no, where did #5 go?!

I don't get you... number 5 is there for me...

...although it looks like a fishing rod reel to me...

...not something that you'd wanna hold in your hand whilst walking down the road...

Red...

Skip protection? You'd barely be able to walk with them... how heavy they look... so I can't really see you skipping down the road... can you?

(I wonder if people in another 90 years time will be so sceptical of our 'portable' products as we, or at least I am of these... I wonder if the people of the future will also consider our music formats incredibly primeval

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