More like the discman. Or whatever they called those.
The Walkman played tapes. You could jump around and shake that thing almost as much as you wanted without disturbing the data it was reading from the tape. With discmen, they eventually added some kind of read-ahead buffer which allowed a certain amount of “shaking” for x period of time (like 30 seconds, 60 sendings) before it would disturb the data being read and your music would get all fucked up. I imagine this record player in a car would have very similar issues while driving.
More like the discman. Or whatever they called those.
The Walkman played tapes. You could jump around and shake that thing almost as much as you wanted without disturbing the data it was reading from the tape. With discmen, they eventually added some kind of read-ahead buffer which allowed a certain amount of “shaking” for x period of time (like 30 seconds, 60 sendings) before it would disturb the data being read and your music would get all fucked up. I imagine this record player in a car would have very similar issues while driving.
I actually forgot about the Walkman/Discman split terminology, I didn’t realise they changed the name to CD Walkman reasonably late.
Otherwise yeah you’re absolutely right, this car record player sounds like an absolute nightmare of needle skipping and ruined vinyl.
Walkman was a name used for portable radio, tape, cd, and mp3 players.
The little pocket at the top of the backpack with the headphones symbol WAS A LIE