Same, I love 90s peak Sony. It is amazing the amount of products they released. They had an offering for every niche.
And that was their downfall.
Nobody cared for a gazillion cartridges, sticks, disks, drives etc if it all sounded exactly the same in the end.
This made me nostalgic for a 1990s Sony shortwave radio that I had as a kid. It replaced a much larger probably 1980s era radio that my grandfather passed on to me. By comparison this 1990s one was magically miniature - and very similar design to book reader:
https://swling.com/blog/2016/09/the-sony-icf-sw100-a-minitur...
Re:Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player
by reaperducer on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:26PM
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Thanks for the link to that site. I expect I'll waste most of this evening looking through it.
It brought back memories of my SWL days. My favorites were Radio Sofia, Radio Habana (when playing music), and RNZI. I even sent away for an RNZI t-shirt, and was wearing it in Pennsylvania one day when a Maori recognized it and came running across the room to ask me about it.
I still listen to RNZ Pacific online, but it's not the same.
Re:Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player
by giantrobot on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:11PM
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Oh man that's a looker.
*Sony desire rising*
If you're thinking of getting one I don't recommend it. Finding a properly working model is non-trivial and once you do finding content is harder. At the end of the day you've got a hard to use dictionary.
I didn't find out these details until I owned them. However I have a soft spot for Sony's industrial design from the 90s. I've got a couple of these, Pyxis GPS receivers, and some Hi-8/Digital-8 pieces. I think they just look cool and some I lusted after when I was younger. It's way more techno looking than their 70s and 80s ID and way cooler than their post-2000 retro-esque ID.