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Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.
Yeah this gives the vibe of some poorly-researched hipster pop up "museum"
Perhaps a problem in museum, but at least where I live any highly portable CD player like this gets called "discman" same as with portable cassette players being called "walkman".
Yeah what is that called when a product name becomes a common noun? Nintendo fought this so that "Nintendo" didn't become synonymous with "videogame console."
Trademark erosion?
I had a diskman when they were dying to pure MP3 players.
It was an ATRAK3 plus (a proprietary compression format) and CD player combo that came with software to burn whole libraries on standard CDs, complete with folders and everything.
It was cool as hell, a built-in an/fm tuner, and I used it for work for years along with a single rewritable cd. I had different folders for different languages and genres and shit.
You can buy them on eBay now for like $30, which ironically is more than I paid for it in 2002-4 or whatever it was, however the software to convert to the ATRAK3 plus format was super super hard to find even in the early naughties, unless you have the installer disc.
They should have put one of those into the museum. Would have been way cooler and more informative and shit
You confirmed my suspicions. I immediately looked at the tag and knew it probably wasn't a Discman because there ain't no way Sony wouldn't have trademarked that name.
And it's not even the first of its type. I had a 1st gen Phillips Expanium that I got back in 2000.