Wealth

Vol 2 Chapter 36: Walkman

Sure enough, a heavy snow blocked the road.

   There are three inches of snow that makes it difficult to travel. People wear ear hats and thick clothes walking on the snow, while the children are laughing and sitting on the sledges they made, and have fun together.

   Fan Heng suddenly discovered that Fan Wubing had been very silent for the past few days. He didn't know what he was doing in his room, so he opened the door curiously and walked in.

The room was in a mess. Fan Wubing’s desk was filled with a lot of materials, some circuit diagrams, and various parts that were dismantled by him. Fan Wubing himself plunged in. I don’t know. What are you doing?

   "What are you messing with?" Fan Heng carefully picked up a small component from the table and examined it, and found that it was a miniature stepping motor with a diameter of about one centimeter.

   Fan Wushu immersed himself in fiddling with his things, and replied casually, "A Sony Walkman, Walkman."

   "Walkman? What is it for?" Fan Hyung had never heard of it before, so he was taken aback.

"The Walkman is naturally used to listen to music—" Fan Wubing suddenly realized the existence of his father. When he looked up, he saw Fan Heng's face blank, and he remembered a question. Sony's Walkman did not have a large number of them at this time. Naturally, his father Fan Heng had never seen the land flow into the mainland.

   So Fan Wubing let his father over, took out a good Sony Walkman, put on the strap, pulled out the earphones, put on Fan Heng, and then pressed the play button.

"Boom!" In the earphones, a burst of heavy metal rock music suddenly rang, and Fan Heng was caught off guard. He was a little dazed. After a few seconds, he got used to the earphones, took off the earphones, and said to Fan Wuyao, "This What is it, scary!"

"Oh, you are not used to listening to this music. I'll change it for you." Fan Wubing took the machine and picked one out of the few cassettes. The ones printed on it were all traditional characters, and replaced them. After that, I didn’t use headphones and put it out directly. The sound quality seemed a bit unsatisfactory, but it was much better than the radio that I listened to every day. It was a Cantonese song.

   Fan Hyung still doesn't understand, but the rhythm of the song is good, and I can still appreciate it.

   "Where did you get such a good thing?" Fan Heng said in amazement.

   "Japanese goods, they are not bad to use." Fan Wuyao replied.

   The Walkman that Fan Wuyi got in his hands is naturally a private item obtained through Wuzhi small machine. The Walkman portable tape player developed by Sony in 1979 is also the world's first Walkman. The appearance of the Walkman marked the birth of the concept of portable music, and the word Walkman has since become synonymous with portable music players.

   Walking and listening to music has always been a dream of many people, and this dream gradually became a reality after Philips released the first audio tape in 1966.

   Compared with the various storage media of the same period, the tape has convenient recording function and good shock resistance, which also makes the walkman become a reality. Although Fan Wubing, who is accustomed to Dolby surround sound effects, is quite dissatisfied with this world's earliest walkman, but he also has to admit that so far, this is the best one he can see. .

   In fact, in 1979, Sony’s audio department changed the small tape recorder used by reporters into a smaller tape recorder, which was praised by many people for good sound quality. Later, they launched the Walkman and positioned the Walkman in the youth market. They focused on emphasizing youthful vitality and fashion, and created a headphone culture. They began to sell in the world in February 1980, and on November of the same year. Starting to use "Walkman", a non-standard Japanese and English brand, in the world.

   Because of China's national conditions at the time, things like Walkman have not yet become popular. In fact, many Chinese people have not used a Walkman until many years later.

   Fan Wubing clearly remembered that his first small tape recorder, or not a Walkman, was a Zhongnan brand tape recorder. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is about the size of a brick. It comes with two palm-sized stereo speakers. The weight is not light. It was brought back by his father Fan Heng when he went to Guangzhou on a business trip. The price is not cheap. The time is 1989.

   "This thing must be expensive!" The first thing Fan Heng thought of was the price of this Walkman.

At least he had never seen this thing on the market, so Fan Heng felt that although the size of this thing was small, the price might not be low. He knew that there was an opener for broadcasting in the factory. Very high, the sound quality is not necessarily better than this little thing in front of me.

   You know, that opener is as tall as one person, and the tape on it will often fly out by itself.

   "If it is put in the country, it should be very expensive. I am afraid it will take you a year's salary to buy such a unit." Fan Wuyao nodded in response.

   "Oh, it's so expensive." Fan Heng nodded, looked at the machines that had been taken apart by Fan Wuyi, and said nothing.

   "Hey, don't you feel a little distressed?" How could Fan Heng's thoughts escape from the observation of Fan Wuyi with brothers fighting tigers, father and son soldiers in battle? Fan Heng's gaze stayed on the machine that was taken apart by him, and he knew what his father was thinking.

Fan Heng was naturally a little annoyed by his son's ridicule. He wanted to reach out and give him a chisel, but he was worried that Fan Wu's little head would be stupid, so he drew a circle in the air. Turning back, he said angrily, "You kid can't be so prodigal even if you have money! I can't give a reason for tossing, I still want to beat your ass!"

   But, of course, Fan Wubing would not let his father's slap fall on his ass. He is such a prodigal, but there are good reasons.

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