If you want to know what music the Apollo astronauts played on their Sony TC-50’s - here’s an article www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/mickey-kapp-apollo-11-astro-mixtapes
off topic but im wondering where I can find a power adapter for my WM-D6C but so far I had no luck so if you know where I can find one could you let me know. thanks
@@masterchief5417 you could probably buy a multi adapter, one that you change a small plug in to change the voltage . On the working end you have different interchangeable ends that plug in via two pins, depending on which way you plug it in will change the polarity from positive center to positive outer . Hope this helps
We're still here being amazed that we can now download and midi mix our music and share it to our old friends in real time around the world easily while costing next to nothing on our wireless telephones.
@Jimmy Ward did you know, we had cell phone technology in the 1940's, and there was an atttempt to establish wireless service in the US after WWII? Except MaBell put a stop to that,fearing it would end their monopoly of landlines in every home. Which ironically did happen after wireless phone communication service was introduced fifty years later.
Imagine the tech they will have in a hundred years when we are dust. Can you imagine showing an I phone to someone 300 years ago? Amazing. Stay enthusiastic. Lol. Have a boss weekend. ;)
I work on vintage guitar amps and convert old PA amps for guitar use BUT most of the stuff he offhandedly just takes a look at I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole!! Like this cassette recorder...I would have looked at it after the first few screws were removed and said "Um, NO, it will set on the shelf as a curio" lol. He is very underrated as a repair tech!! LOVE the videos Matt!! Keep up the good fight!!
The critical technological advance which enabled the TC-50 to be transformed into the Walkman was the development of high coercivity rare earth magnets by Philips around 1974. I was fortunate to be part of the development team based in Eindhoven at that time. These magnets were used for the first time by Sony to create much smaller, lighter and more efficient DC motors and, perhaps more importantly for the the success of the Walkman, powerful lightweight headphones.
Thanks for this info explaning an important part of time time-to-market lag for the consumer Walkman. Another commentor here had said that the headphones were a key to the commercial success. Your information and involvement on a professional level add validity to that statement. Being a part of technological advancement is gratifying.
@@sweethomeboston2720 When Sony UK was taken to court by Andreas Pavel for infringement of his Stereobelt concept, Sony's own engineers said the idea for a personal stereo was not new and they had experimented with the idea some years earlier. Just like the telephone, everyone knew the portable telephone would eventually arrive, it was simply a matter of waiting for the idea to become technically feasible and commercially attractive. Sony's own engineers considered the Walkman to be "iterative" more than "inventive", which is why they did not patent any of their audio devices during the 1960s-70s. They even talked about the importance of magnets to their design in court.
I've always marveled in old Apollo footage that they had a portable cassette player for their astro-mixtapes but never thought to look into it further. Thanks!
@@flinx There is original footage of the Moon missions where you can see that the guys are hearing Country music with this thing. But I never thought that this could be a Sony machine.
@@IntyMichael Interesting to think that 20 years before Japan was almost destroyed and went through a major war with the US and then they are supplying the most advanced miniaturized tape decks to take to the moon.
Same, I always knew they had a handheld cassette player for music on the Apollo missions, and also that the Walkman was first released in 1979... It wasn't until I saw the title of this video that I realised that shouldn't make sense 🤣
I was an absolute Walkman nut in the mid 80s to mid 90s. I actually got to use Sony's first Walkman from 79 as my dad (who was always tech mad, something that I most definitely have inherited) bought one around launch. I loved going to town on a weekend and perusing Dixons, Curry's, George Henry Lee's et al, looking at the latest and greatest from Sony. As soon as they launched Mega Bass into the line I had to have one and accidentally on purpose broke my fairly new player so as to upgrade. And yeah the Bass was Mega, Electro 7 sounded phenomenal lol. I turned to the darkside and jumped to Aiwa in the early 90s. Their top end machines were so much cheaper than Sony's but looked and sounded great. My last personal CP from that time, an Aiwa from around 92, was a purple all metal job that was tiny yet built like a tank. 20 years later and I came back to the Sony fold with a pretty decent machine to play some old cassettes, think Techmoan has actually featured it in one of his vids. MP3 is a marvel but I'll always miss those heady days of the Walkman and the Kenwood HI-FI.
@Tony Mcevoy I got my first AIWA back in 1983! Solidly made, and beautifully designed unit with AM/FM stereo, auto reverse, and a neat little black cube stereo mic that plugged directly into the unit itself, also brilliant sounding quality headphones with their trademark orange foam ear pads!
Aiwa was actually majority owned by Sony from the early '80s on. I heard from a friend that Sony treated them as a small-batch consumer R&D place, to see where Sony might go next - and they ended up buying them entirely in 2002...
This video speaks directly to the SONY fanboy in me. I've been thinking about when you would post a Walkman anniversary video, and then you took it even further. Great video. Thanks.
same here. it always amazed me that it was Sony and not Philips who made cassette’s into the success they were. eventhough Philips invented the cassette, they weren’t really able to monetize it
@@DaveFlash Probably it depends where you live. In Europe, Philips was more successful, together with the long forgotten German brands like Nordmende, Grundig, ITT, etc.
i like sony products, but they do have a tendency to be fragile. In the 80's I had their first portable b/w tv set and people were crowding around me. In the late 80's I had their 8mm portable color tv/ video recorder. That thing was amazing.
It amazes me how much effort Toachmoan and others put into their videos. Whilst TH-cam is full of crap, there are still many channels whos videos surpass the quality of some TV content. Well done Mat.
I worked in the Hi Fi trade from 1971 but I din't become a Sony Main agent till about 1973. The TC50 was superseded by the Sony TC55 which was used by a lot of journalists. I remember selling one to Twiggy. The original walkman was originally called the Stowaway but Sony had to change the name to Walkman because of the name Stowaway was used by someone else. I went to the original launch of the walkman which did come in sliver and changed to the blue colour on the second shipment. Dealers were not impressed and the initial sales were low so I managed to scoop the majority of the initial import. I heard dealers saying it doesn't record and they didn't get the concept of playing steroids tapes on the move and listening though headphones. Thanks for another great review. Jeremy Travis Teletape London
Thank you again for a wonderful video. I'm 52 and learn so much from your channel. I have very fond memories of when my father introduced me to his brand new Walkman II (the one with the power buttons). I was in awe. Sony was in a league of their own back in the 70s and 80s. I was also a MASSIVE Minidisc fan/user. Keep up the good work!
That included cassette IS special - it uses Sony's short-lived Auto-Sensor system, which causes a compatible tape recorder to emit a loud beep when the end of the tape is reached.
@@curtisscott9251 I used to get a similar sound from my computer speakers if I left my cell phone near them on my desk. It was always happen just before the phone would ring.
I know, made me nervous too. Personally I would have either left it as is or done a full restoration, but then again I'm not trying to run a youtube channel 😉
Yeah it is not anymore "100% original condition" but seeing inside was very interesting. And now all other machines can stay "100% original condition" because ppl can now just watch a YT video. 👍
Wow, I had and used a TC-50 back in 1988, I had no idea of its heritage, I was just starting a BETC national diploma at NESCOT (North East Collage Of Technology), and I mentioned to my Dad that I could probably use a handheld tape recorder to record my lectures, he then asked at his work's technical department, and someone found an old TC-50 that they gave to him, and I used it for the next 2 years :) . The one I was given didn't have a rechargeable battery, it had a caddy that held 3 AA batteries, and didn't come with any of the peripherals, but it worked flawlessly for the 2 years of my course, and was still working in 1997 when it and a load of my other possessions were stolen out of a storage unit.
Neat! I love how the TC-50 has the design hallmarks of a 50-year old device, like that large grate over the microphone, but in a form-factor that would make all the 80s Walkmans and personal stereos do a double-take. Bet it's pretty heavy with all that sheet metal, though!
I was just reading comments wondering where that was said bout the dog been sick on the floor, and a few seconds later out it come. it kind of cracked me up.
In addition to being matched to the Sony TC-50, that microphone with its two-part input connector (mike + stop/start) will work with almost any monaural shoebox cassette recorder ever made.
Keeping historical memories of the first humans on the moon alive for future generations to enjoy... Thank you. Plus we also get a rare puppet outro so Flippin 'eck, life is good.
Another great Techmoan video getting a big thumbs-up from someone old enough to have watched the first moonlanding on tv (I remember my dad coming into the bedroom to wake me up to watch the tv (It was in the middle of the night UK time), telling me that "you need to see this because it's important and you'll remember it")
Record means something like commit to heart or recall it from your heart (cor in Latin). I think it relates to where people thought memories were stored. Like in the expression "knowing something by heart". Edit: typo
I guess we used to "cord", now it's all about the cordless, and at some point I suppose we will "record" when for some reason wireless will stop working? :D
Thanks for showing this. When I saw the Apollo 13 movie my buddy and I were laughing at the "Sony Walkman" in it and said "these werent invented in the 1960s!". But now I see what kind of unit this was and that it was used in the Apollo program. You learn something every day. Thanks again!
You gave us a fantastic look at the model of tape recorder, that went to the moon mission. And it was a far better look than we would get in a museum. That fantastic skit at the end, pure gold.
They didn't even set boots on the moon, they wore over boots when going outside. One of the conspiracy nuts talking points is pointing out the pictures of the boot prints don't match the boots they wore.
I purchased this exact model at an estate sale a year ago, but didn't attempt to find out if it even worked. I was just fascinated by the sight and feel of vintage technology. At just $5, it paid for itself with the entertainment as is. I also didn't know it's history as one of the items aboard Apollo missions when I bought it. Your video here has given me the inspiration to find out if it even works. The detailed disassembly you provided will come in handy should I need to dig inside. Mine actually came with the battery pack, so that means it will be taken on a walk (if it works)! I even have an era compatible ear monitor in a bag of parts.
Without a doubt one of my top 5 TH-cam channels of all time! Love your work Techmoan and this particular video was fantastic. I always learn something new watching your channel.
On a sidenote: note the headphone (and microphone) jack being a continued, global standard for more than half a century. I can't think of many standards like that. It is madness to abondon it now.
As far as I know the only people abandoning it are the smartphone manufacturers who are trying their absolute best to please shareholders by boosting gross profit margins as much as possible through "budgetary reconsiderations" such as the removal of headphones. Once they can engineer a swivel system that lets you take selfies with the rear camera that's cheaper than adding the front camera, they'll get rid of the front camera too.
@@michelvanbriemen3459 We already know how to make such cameras, a line of kids' tablets called the "InnoTab" had a swivel camera that can be rotated to look forward or back. And if you really want to go back, the Game Boy Camera also has a swivel camera. I think it's not used in smartphones because it might introduce a weak point in the structure, or it'll break off easily.
@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 That's what I meant by developing a good swivel, the one on the Game Boy Camera was cheapy plastic. I'm thinking "swivel" more along the line of those motorised flashes some cameras had, or the Oppo Reno with its pop-up camera. That sort of tech with mechanical reliability in mind in something as small as a smartphone isn't cheap, but they'll do it if it means they can omit one camera.
Much longer than that, originated with telephone switchboards (the full-size jack) so over a century old. Used on all headphones and other low power audio equipment like guitars, and finally the mini jack was made later. Maybe I'm just being pedantic but just as mini and micro USB didn't redefine the USB standard, and are compatible through adapters, that's why I group all sizes of T(R(R))S adapters in my head.
This channel was in my recommendation. I have been binge watching it for 3 days now! This retro tech is not only a nostalgia fest, the video content is truly educational. Easy subscribe from me :)
We are of the generation that went through those periods of quantum leap in technologies - the 60' and 70's. It is nice and nostalgic to se and learn about these devices that we saw or heard all those years past. Thumbs up!
Last night I watched Apollo 13 and they had shots of the TC-50 (I hope they got it right) and I wondered what this machine was, I bet Techmoan would know. Next day you had the answer. Great job.
Well I for one am delighted that someone found it interesting enough to tell the world about that tape machine that I have wondered about for decades since first seeing it in various Command Modules via the 'home movie' style film footage. You only ever got a glimpse so you couldn't tell the make. I guess nowadays I could have googled it quite easily but fortunately the thought never occurred to me since it would have taken the immense pleasure out of this video. More than I could ever have hoped to have known. Wonderful stuff!👍
This is supremely interesting. I know you always mention the "Attention to detail" in the products you review, but I just want to say thanks for your attention to detail in these videos.
Mat, every time you do the puppet show at the end it makes my week! Thanks for giving me a floor rolling case of the giggles... My cats are looking at me right now like I have gone completely raving mad...! Loved the one liner, "I'd rather lick the screen of a smart phone I found in the toilet..." If you don't mind I am putting it into my 'Black Book' of the best quotes ever...:)🇬🇷🐱☮️
It is entirely possible that I have sold you some vintage electronics, haha. I sell quite a bit of it on the bay. Fantastic channel by the way. Fan from California.
Sony Walkmans are pretty cool. I had a stereo recording Walkman, long ago, with an AM/FM radio. The AM radio was so sensitive that it could pick up a radio station from California, in Canada, at night. This particular one, if I remember correctly, was able to work off of only one AA battery. Great video. Cheers!
Thanks Techmoan. Having a keen interest in the space program and watching as much Appolo 11 footage as possible over the last two weeks, you answered my question. I noticed that they had a tape recorder, but assumed it might be some specially designed reel-to-reel deck. Great to be educated and see one in the flesh, even if I did cringe when you disassembled it...especially the leather cover...argh! Thanks for yet another superb video!
not a big deal. We can design a battery case using a 3D printer/software/scanner that can hold ni-mh or lithium batteries. But think about it... ni-cad batteries sucked in the 80's so they must have REALLY sucked in the late 60's.
@@heedmywarning2792 They were not much worse, but a bit lower in capacity BTW, Ni-Cd cells are still available-mostly for rebuilding old packs, but they ARE still available nevertheless.
I have one of these!! I had no idea of the story behind this. Mine works too! It does run slow like yours, but records and plays back voice perfectly. Also the A/B tab says easymatic not magazine matic. Of course I had to use a dc adapter. I do have the battery pack but it had three rechargeable double A's in it that I had to remove and if I wanted to I could rearrange some tabs to be able to put regular double A's in it and rearrange the battery pack. What a cool video to find! Thank you!!
Superb machine, and thanks to Techmoan, is yet another that is on my wish list of amazing historical electronic devices. Also, while the puppet sketches are always entertaining, this was one of the best yet!
That's progress for you. Some 50 year old completely dead NiCad AA's cant be allowed on a plane, while a bunch of 100 watt/hour foil and plastic bombs in laptops are perfectly ok.
Lovely piece Techmoan. I had the same speed variation issue with a tape recorder from the 1960's, and it wasn't the electronics. I found that when the tape slowed down, gently tapping the motor caused it to recover for a while. In that era, the speed was cleverly regulated inside the motor by using centrifugal forces to momentarily pull away brush contacts as the commutator speed increased , thereby briefly breaking power to limit and maintain a maximum speed, a bit like a governor. This was even adjustable via tiny set screws, all inside the motor. I suspect your device has the same issue. In my case, cleaning and re-seating the brushes, and cleaning the commutator contacts resolved the issue completely. The curved face of the brushes must be preserved though to maximise the surface area in contact with the commutator, otherwise (as I discovered) insufficient power will be delivered to the motor.
🎵Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement 🎵 🎵And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station To Station? 🎵 🎵And Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication🎵
die Videos von Techmoan sind immer super. Ich repariere viele Geräte finde es auch super immer mal reinschauen zu können ohne es vor Ort zu haben. Schön das es auch fast immer so ist wie ich es mir denke.
Nice player pity about the battery, I think the Ni-Cad battery is ok to fly normally it's Li-ion that has issues even Li-ion is permitted if it's installed in the device then shipped from japan
I wouldn’t worry about the original nicad battery that came with it being absent as there is about zero chance it would still hold a charge after all these decades.
There are all sorts of weird embargoes that come and go. Security, don'tcha know. My company does a lot of shipping on airliners, and it's always an adventure seeing what new insanity the TSA has invented on a given day.
LimaVictor It makes perfect sense that they would not want a dead nicad battery from the 60s/70s to be imported as they would just have to recycle it. Better to leave it to the Japanese to recycle it.
We choose to listen to these things, not because the sound quality is good, but because the sound quality is representative of the time, and of the other things.
My understanding is that if a battery is contained within equipment in which it's designed to operate, it is safe to travel in the mail. I wonder if someone in Japan was being over-zealous.
@@westinthewest That should be the case but I've had plenty of simple stuff like controllers stopped just for the batteries. In my case the main issue might just be EU as always.
One could argue that the familiar shape of the Walkman played a big part in influencing the iPod and all other digital media players, which carried over through to smartphones of today. Also, I always enjoy the puppets but this is probably the first puppet sketch which got an actual out-loud laugh from me.
Another fine video, very enjoyable. Really think it is about time that Netflix or Amazon approached you about creating a series of 5 or 10 minute long episodes of puppet comedy gold!
If you want to know what music the Apollo astronauts played on their Sony TC-50’s - here’s an article www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/mickey-kapp-apollo-11-astro-mixtapes
not a tenuous link! A beautiful design and mechanical execution with a great video :)
off topic but im wondering where I can find a power adapter for my WM-D6C but so far I had no luck so if you know where I can find one could you let me know.
thanks
@@masterchief5417 you could probably buy a multi adapter, one that you change a small plug in to change the voltage . On the working end you have different interchangeable ends that plug in via two pins, depending on which way you plug it in will change the polarity from positive center to positive outer . Hope this helps
Bonjour 😍 merci pour votre vidéo 😍❤... pouvez vous me dire le poids du Walkman de 1979...?
very cool
"this is just a historic object ... should be kept in a glass case"
* rips skin away and pulls out organs to get to the heart to revive the patient *
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM.
@@wesker919 The object, the person or the glass case?
@XxSpace_FlightxX The Husqvarna TC-50? I mean it is a children's dirtbike I don't see how that is an an important part of history (joke).
Can you imagine someone using a reel to reel recorder for years and then being handed a TC-50 to use?
@Jimmy Ward Of course we can, we just don't have the budget to create the equipment required
We're still here being amazed that we can now download and midi mix our music and share it to our old friends in real time around the world easily while costing next to nothing on our wireless telephones.
@Jimmy Ward did you know, we had cell phone technology in the 1940's, and there was an atttempt to establish wireless service in the US after WWII? Except MaBell put a stop to that,fearing it would end their monopoly of landlines in every home. Which ironically did happen after wireless phone communication service was introduced fifty years later.
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Imagine the tech they will have in a hundred years when we are dust. Can you imagine showing an I phone to someone 300 years ago? Amazing. Stay enthusiastic. Lol. Have a boss weekend. ;)
Filed under enjoyably historic. Thank you, another good and interesting bit of history.
You definitely underrate your ability as a repairman, imho.
he does though
He's good at what he does right? ;) Skills to pay the bills...lol.
Hmmm.... someone with true repair experience in portable consumer electronics starts by searching for hidden screws. There are always hidden screws.
I thought the same.....he is always saying that its for a pro to do, but damn.....
I work on vintage guitar amps and convert old PA amps for guitar use BUT most of the stuff he offhandedly just takes a look at I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole!! Like this cassette recorder...I would have looked at it after the first few screws were removed and said "Um, NO, it will set on the shelf as a curio" lol. He is very underrated as a repair tech!! LOVE the videos Matt!! Keep up the good fight!!
techmoan, you're absolutely spoiling us lately. keep it up!
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The critical technological advance which enabled the TC-50 to be transformed into the Walkman was the development of high coercivity rare earth magnets by Philips around 1974. I was fortunate to be part of the development team based in Eindhoven at that time. These magnets were used for the first time by Sony to create much smaller, lighter and more efficient DC motors and, perhaps more importantly for the the success of the Walkman, powerful lightweight headphones.
Thanks for this info explaning an important part of time time-to-market lag for the consumer Walkman. Another commentor here had said that the headphones were a key to the commercial success. Your information and involvement on a professional level add validity to that statement. Being a part of technological advancement is gratifying.
@@sweethomeboston2720 When Sony UK was taken to court by Andreas Pavel for infringement of his Stereobelt concept, Sony's own engineers said the idea for a personal stereo was not new and they had experimented with the idea some years earlier. Just like the telephone, everyone knew the portable telephone would eventually arrive, it was simply a matter of waiting for the idea to become technically feasible and commercially attractive. Sony's own engineers considered the Walkman to be "iterative" more than "inventive", which is why they did not patent any of their audio devices during the 1960s-70s. They even talked about the importance of magnets to their design in court.
I've always marveled in old Apollo footage that they had a portable cassette player for their astro-mixtapes but never thought to look into it further. Thanks!
hard to think about the tape deck when one is watching footage of things like the Apollo capsule, Saturn V, the landing itself.
The movie Apollo 13 featured this machine or one like it and I though it was an anachronism. This video was educational for clearing that up!
@@flinx There is original footage of the Moon missions where you can see that the guys are hearing Country music with this thing. But I never thought that this could be a Sony machine.
@@IntyMichael Interesting to think that 20 years before Japan was almost destroyed and went through a major war with the US and then they are supplying the most advanced miniaturized tape decks to take to the moon.
Same, I always knew they had a handheld cassette player for music on the Apollo missions, and also that the Walkman was first released in 1979... It wasn't until I saw the title of this video that I realised that shouldn't make sense 🤣
I was an absolute Walkman nut in the mid 80s to mid 90s. I actually got to use Sony's first Walkman from 79 as my dad (who was always tech mad, something that I most definitely have inherited) bought one around launch. I loved going to town on a weekend and perusing Dixons, Curry's, George Henry Lee's et al, looking at the latest and greatest from Sony. As soon as they launched Mega Bass into the line I had to have one and accidentally on purpose broke my fairly new player so as to upgrade. And yeah the Bass was Mega, Electro 7 sounded phenomenal lol. I turned to the darkside and jumped to Aiwa in the early 90s. Their top end machines were so much cheaper than Sony's but looked and sounded great. My last personal CP from that time, an Aiwa from around 92, was a purple all metal job that was tiny yet built like a tank. 20 years later and I came back to the Sony fold with a pretty decent machine to play some old cassettes, think Techmoan has actually featured it in one of his vids. MP3 is a marvel but I'll always miss those heady days of the Walkman and the Kenwood HI-FI.
@Tony Mcevoy
I got my first AIWA back in 1983! Solidly made, and beautifully designed unit with AM/FM stereo, auto reverse, and a neat little black cube stereo mic that plugged directly into the unit itself, also brilliant sounding quality headphones with their trademark orange foam ear pads!
Aiwa was actually majority owned by Sony from the early '80s on. I heard from a friend that Sony treated them as a small-batch consumer R&D place, to see where Sony might go next - and they ended up buying them entirely in 2002...
A new Techmoan video. The best way to spice up an otherwise dull Saturday.
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This video speaks directly to the SONY fanboy in me. I've been thinking about when you would post a Walkman anniversary video, and then you took it even further. Great video. Thanks.
same here. it always amazed me that it was Sony and not Philips who made cassette’s into the success they were. eventhough Philips invented the cassette, they weren’t really able to monetize it
I can't. Sony is phoney.
@@TheBcoolGuy Grow up.
@@DaveFlash Probably it depends where you live. In Europe, Philips was more successful, together with the long forgotten German brands like Nordmende, Grundig, ITT, etc.
i like sony products, but they do have a tendency to be fragile. In the 80's I had their first portable b/w tv set and people were crowding around me. In the late 80's I had their 8mm portable color tv/ video recorder. That thing was amazing.
Never get tired of that end music, I’ll have it at my funeral.
Hahaha "mirrored in the machines for decades to come" while literally being mirrored in the machines that came decades later.
I tip my hat to you sir.
It amazes me how much effort Toachmoan and others put into their videos. Whilst TH-cam is full of crap, there are still many channels whos videos surpass the quality of some TV content. Well done Mat.
And picked up by a bloke named Matt (Matte)
Paul Edwards Is "Toachmoan" related to Technoman?
And not only all that...but a brilliant puppet sketch afterwards..... Techmoan at his best! :-)
Banjo Pink I could blame auto correct!
I worked in the Hi Fi trade from 1971 but I din't become a Sony Main agent till about 1973. The TC50 was superseded by the Sony TC55 which was used by a lot of journalists.
I remember selling one to Twiggy.
The original walkman was originally called the Stowaway but Sony had to change the name to Walkman because of the name Stowaway was used by someone else.
I went to the original launch of the walkman which did come in sliver and changed to the blue colour on the second shipment.
Dealers were not impressed and the initial sales were low so I managed to scoop the majority of the initial import.
I heard dealers saying it doesn't record and they didn't get the concept of playing steroids tapes on the move and listening though headphones.
Thanks for another great review.
Jeremy Travis Teletape London
they should have called it the "Moonwalkman"
no no no... you should call it the MoonMan :p
NO call it the the moonwalker
@@Shpektrometer YES
@@Shpektrometer Just shorten it to M&M
Thank you again for a wonderful video. I'm 52 and learn so much from your channel. I have very fond memories of when my father introduced me to his brand new Walkman II (the one with the power buttons). I was in awe. Sony was in a league of their own back in the 70s and 80s. I was also a MASSIVE Minidisc fan/user. Keep up the good work!
That included cassette IS special - it uses Sony's short-lived Auto-Sensor system, which causes a compatible tape recorder to emit a loud beep when the end of the tape is reached.
OMG LOL, I'm in tears laughing at the puppet sketch!
@@curtisscott9251 I used to get a similar sound from my computer speakers if I left my cell phone near them on my desk. It was always happen just before the phone would ring.
It was funny but it wasn’t THAT funny come on
@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 Humor is a peculiar thing. It's completely subjective.
I was really hoping that the old puppet was about to "set foot" in the young one's arse-crack.... but I'll settle for dog puke.
@@6yjjk that is about where i was expecting this to go as well
One TC-50 is in the Smithsonian Museum, another in the Techmoanian.
For the puppets, I seriously thought that once took his shoes off he was going to set foot on the other one's rear end or something.
You pulling that tapecorder apart to get to the belt has me stressed out.
I know, made me nervous too. Personally I would have either left it as is or done a full restoration, but then again I'm not trying to run a youtube channel 😉
Yeah it is not anymore "100% original condition" but seeing inside was very interesting. And now all other machines can stay "100% original condition" because ppl can now just watch a YT video. 👍
@@Jako1987 true he made the ultimate sacrifice
especially peeling the leather stripe
Sacrifices have to be made.
Wow, I had and used a TC-50 back in 1988, I had no idea of its heritage, I was just starting a BETC national diploma at NESCOT (North East Collage Of Technology), and I mentioned to my Dad that I could probably use a handheld tape recorder to record my lectures, he then asked at his work's technical department, and someone found an old TC-50 that they gave to him, and I used it for the next 2 years :) .
The one I was given didn't have a rechargeable battery, it had a caddy that held 3 AA batteries, and didn't come with any of the peripherals, but it worked flawlessly for the 2 years of my course, and was still working in 1997 when it and a load of my other possessions were stolen out of a storage unit.
Neat! I love how the TC-50 has the design hallmarks of a 50-year old device, like that large grate over the microphone, but in a form-factor that would make all the 80s Walkmans and personal stereos do a double-take. Bet it's pretty heavy with all that sheet metal, though!
two of my favorite subjects combined in one video. it's not going to get any better than this. Thanks Techmoan!
‘The dog’s been sick on the floor!” Haha, that was so relatable 😆
Sounds like owning a dog is quite similar to owning a cat.
Oh no! And little Johnnie getting all the big bits!
@@nickwallette6201 Except cats are better.
I was just reading comments wondering where that was said bout the dog been sick on the floor, and a few seconds later out it come. it kind of cracked me up.
Wow I actually found that microphone at the thrift store! Now I know what it goes to!
Might want to pick up that puppy, and eventually sell for whomever is missing that part ;)
In addition to being matched to the Sony TC-50, that microphone with its two-part input connector (mike + stop/start) will work with almost any monaural shoebox cassette recorder ever made.
Thanks Mat I learned something very interesting today. "The Moans" were fun too!
Keeping historical memories of the first humans on the moon alive for future generations to enjoy... Thank you. Plus we also get a rare puppet outro so Flippin 'eck, life is good.
Wow didn't realise it went back that far, amazing feat of engineering! Great video as always.
Another great Techmoan video getting a big thumbs-up from someone old enough to have watched the first moonlanding on tv (I remember my dad coming into the bedroom to wake me up to watch the tv (It was in the middle of the night UK time), telling me that "you need to see this because it's important and you'll remember it")
So, you "cord" first, then "record"?
Yep, that would be true.
Just like with ''play'' first, then '' replay''.
Record means something like commit to heart or recall it from your heart (cor in Latin). I think it relates to where people thought memories were stored. Like in the expression "knowing something by heart". Edit: typo
Play with on words.
I guess we used to "cord", now it's all about the cordless, and at some point I suppose we will "record" when for some reason wireless will stop working? :D
Not only did you show us a piece of history from the moon landing but also the Sony Walkman. Great video.
Thanks for the great video and taking the time to tear apart that Nightmare and fix it
Thanks for showing this. When I saw the Apollo 13 movie my buddy and I were laughing at the "Sony Walkman" in it and said "these werent invented in the 1960s!".
But now I see what kind of unit this was and that it was used in the Apollo program. You learn something every day. Thanks again!
Thanks for the history of technology mate. I watched the video across the pond in America
You gave us a fantastic look at the model of tape recorder, that went to the moon mission. And it was a far better look than we would get in a museum. That fantastic skit at the end, pure gold.
A rare late upload for UK fans of Techmoan.... Always welcome however
Just discovered your channel . AWESOME!! 😎. Take me back growing up 70s and 80s. 👍👍
So, what did we learn from this video..
Man set his *boots on the moon* 50 years ago.
Flippin' 'eck!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Tridd666 Can't wait for the new season of letterkenny!
They didn't even set boots on the moon, they wore over boots when going outside. One of the conspiracy nuts talking points is pointing out the pictures of the boot prints don't match the boots they wore.
Not even his boots, they were NASA's boots.
@@webchimp and you bought nasa's explanation, meanwhile astronauts can't even agree if they saw stars or not
I purchased this exact model at an estate sale a year ago, but didn't attempt to find out if it even worked. I was just fascinated by the sight and feel of vintage technology. At just $5, it paid for itself with the entertainment as is. I also didn't know it's history as one of the items aboard Apollo missions when I bought it. Your video here has given me the inspiration to find out if it even works. The detailed disassembly you provided will come in handy should I need to dig inside. Mine actually came with the battery pack, so that means it will be taken on a walk (if it works)! I even have an era compatible ear monitor in a bag of parts.
What an absolutely fantastic video on the 50th (to the day) anniversary of Neil stepping onto the moon. Thank you for this :-)
The only thing better than a great Techmoan video is a great Techmoan video with the Moans at the end!
Wow, that was excellent; with some fascinating history I wasn't aware of...
Without a doubt one of my top 5 TH-cam channels of all time! Love your work Techmoan and this particular video was fantastic. I always learn something new watching your channel.
On a sidenote: note the headphone (and microphone) jack being a continued, global standard for more than half a century. I can't think of many standards like that.
It is madness to abondon it now.
As far as I know the only people abandoning it are the smartphone manufacturers who are trying their absolute best to please shareholders by boosting gross profit margins as much as possible through "budgetary reconsiderations" such as the removal of headphones.
Once they can engineer a swivel system that lets you take selfies with the rear camera that's cheaper than adding the front camera, they'll get rid of the front camera too.
@@michelvanbriemen3459 We already know how to make such cameras, a line of kids' tablets called the "InnoTab" had a swivel camera that can be rotated to look forward or back. And if you really want to go back, the Game Boy Camera also has a swivel camera. I think it's not used in smartphones because it might introduce a weak point in the structure, or it'll break off easily.
@@mynamehasspacesinit8687 That's what I meant by developing a good swivel, the one on the Game Boy Camera was cheapy plastic. I'm thinking "swivel" more along the line of those motorised flashes some cameras had, or the Oppo Reno with its pop-up camera. That sort of tech with mechanical reliability in mind in something as small as a smartphone isn't cheap, but they'll do it if it means they can omit one camera.
Much longer than that, originated with telephone switchboards (the full-size jack) so over a century old. Used on all headphones and other low power audio equipment like guitars, and finally the mini jack was made later.
Maybe I'm just being pedantic but just as mini and micro USB didn't redefine the USB standard, and are compatible through adapters, that's why I group all sizes of T(R(R))S adapters in my head.
Excellent content of historical significance. Thank you Techmoan!
So please tell us all - how much was that thing ?
This channel was in my recommendation. I have been binge watching it for 3 days now! This retro tech is not only a nostalgia fest, the video content is truly educational. Easy subscribe from me :)
....more Walkman videos?
Yessssssss
We are of the generation that went through those periods of quantum leap in technologies - the 60' and 70's. It is nice and nostalgic to se and learn about these devices that we saw or heard all those years past. Thumbs up!
7:43 -- song title please?
Did u find out the title of the song? If so please share. 😳
Still no title huh 😞
Last night I watched Apollo 13 and they had shots of the TC-50 (I hope they got it right) and I wondered what this machine was, I bet Techmoan would know. Next day you had the answer. Great job.
The sketch is the best one so far :D
Well I for one am delighted that someone found it interesting enough to tell the world about that tape machine that I have wondered about for decades since first seeing it in various Command Modules via the 'home movie' style film footage. You only ever got a glimpse so you couldn't tell the make. I guess nowadays I could have googled it quite easily but fortunately the thought never occurred to me since it would have taken the immense pleasure out of this video. More than I could ever have hoped to have known. Wonderful stuff!👍
This is supremely interesting. I know you always mention the "Attention to detail" in the products you review, but I just want to say thanks for your attention to detail in these videos.
Mat, every time you do the puppet show at the end it makes my week! Thanks for giving me a floor rolling case of the giggles... My cats are looking at me right now like I have gone completely raving mad...! Loved the one liner, "I'd rather lick the screen of a smart phone I found in the toilet..." If you don't mind I am putting it into my 'Black Book' of the best quotes ever...:)🇬🇷🐱☮️
It is entirely possible that I have sold you some vintage electronics, haha. I sell quite a bit of it on the bay. Fantastic channel by the way. Fan from California.
Do you by any chance have a motor for the tc-50 haha
Another amazing video Techmoan, can't believe it was 10 years before the first Walkman. More of these firsts please!
Stayed for the puppets; was not disappointed.
I used to have a Sony TC-55, obviously developed from this device. Glad to see one in your collection. The internal mechanism is like a watch!
Absolutely brilliant 😎 ty for this fine and topical video. atb
Its always nice to see old technology being restored, if only briefly for this video, I was glad it played one more time to a captive audience
Amazing. Had no idea that Sony had created a compact cassette player this small 11 years before the introduction of the Walkman. Also, love the Moans.
Sony Walkmans are pretty cool. I had a stereo recording Walkman, long ago, with an AM/FM radio. The AM radio was so sensitive that it could pick up a radio station from California, in Canada, at night. This particular one, if I remember correctly, was able to work off of only one AA battery. Great video. Cheers!
I guess the song playing while it is on the moon, is "Fly me to the Moon". 😂 hahahahaha.
Thanks Techmoan. Having a keen interest in the space program and watching as much Appolo 11 footage as possible over the last two weeks, you answered my question. I noticed that they had a tape recorder, but assumed it might be some specially designed reel-to-reel deck. Great to be educated and see one in the flesh, even if I did cringe when you disassembled it...especially the leather cover...argh!
Thanks for yet another superb video!
"We Will Take A TC-50 To The Moon, We Will Take A TC-50 To The Moon By 1970"
-Sony
The TC-50 was issued by NASA in 1968 on Apollo 7. It first orbited the moon on Apollo 10 in 1969.
Cool thanks for the history lesson
Also, it was a reference to JFK we will go to the moon speech.
Its a great moment to see 1960's Sony Walkman. A lot of thanks to you
imagine legacy batteries being banned from being shipped, what a joke
not a big deal. We can design a battery case using a 3D printer/software/scanner that can hold ni-mh or lithium batteries. But think about it... ni-cad batteries sucked in the 80's so they must have REALLY sucked in the late 60's.
batteries are batteries, they might do battery things. you know, like catch fire because of mishandling
@@hachikiina Oh yeah, all those NiCad batteries catching fire because they were put on an airplane.
AFAIK, those regulations were for LITHIUM batteries, NOT Ni-Cd or NiMh batteries.
I strongly suspect that someone misunderstood the rules.
@@heedmywarning2792 They were not much worse, but a bit lower in capacity
BTW, Ni-Cd cells are still available-mostly for rebuilding old packs, but they ARE still available nevertheless.
This is the kind of stuff we need to make replicas of
A most excellent sketch... brilliant semantics 🤣
Yeah, I think he underestimates how good the puppet skits are at times.
Great video. A truly lovely machine. Makes me want to collect Walkmans.
It would be awesome you recorded Space Oddity and Major Tom on a cassette tape and play it on old recorder, I know Copyright infringement.
Can't have any fun anymore.
C.D. Riley He could buy an old commercial tape version of that album and not include the music in a video.
Filed under "WOW" :-) Fantastic video... love the history and that book looked amazing!
Oh a new Epson-"Laptop" for the collection :)
I have one of these!! I had no idea of the story behind this. Mine works too! It does run slow like yours, but records and plays back voice perfectly. Also the A/B tab says easymatic not magazine matic. Of course I had to use a dc adapter. I do have the battery pack but it had three rechargeable double A's in it that I had to remove and if I wanted to I could rearrange some tabs to be able to put regular double A's in it and rearrange the battery pack. What a cool video to find! Thank you!!
Even if someone were to fill a pan with moon dust, they wouldn't want to walk on it barefoot, because it's more like broken glass than sand.
I still patiently await, with every single upload, for that hit clips video. Thanks for the great content
Great insight
Yes
TY brother, love this old stuff and your videos relax me.
Ahh another great act by the puppets, made my evening that.
Banjo Pink nice one 😘
This kind of videos make my life worth livingm thanks Techmoan :D
Seeing loose screws on the table drive me mad.
Put them somewhere where they don't get lost so easily! AHHH!
:)
I also thought the same ... I said: Will not he even have a fridge magnet to put the screws in there?
Seeing loose screws in the comments section always drives me mad.
Superb machine, and thanks to Techmoan, is yet another that is on my wish list of amazing historical electronic devices. Also, while the puppet sketches are always entertaining, this was one of the best yet!
That's progress for you. Some 50 year old completely dead NiCad AA's cant be allowed on a plane, while a bunch of 100 watt/hour foil and plastic bombs in laptops are perfectly ok.
Lovely piece Techmoan. I had the same speed variation issue with a tape recorder from the 1960's, and it wasn't the electronics. I found that when the tape slowed down, gently tapping the motor caused it to recover for a while. In that era, the speed was cleverly regulated inside the motor by using centrifugal forces to momentarily pull away brush contacts as the commutator speed increased , thereby briefly breaking power to limit and maintain a maximum speed, a bit like a governor. This was even adjustable via tiny set screws, all inside the motor. I suspect your device has the same issue. In my case, cleaning and re-seating the brushes, and cleaning the commutator contacts resolved the issue completely. The curved face of the brushes must be preserved though to maximise the surface area in contact with the commutator, otherwise (as I discovered) insufficient power will be delivered to the motor.
I love that you can get drugs shipped anywhere in the world, but NiCad batteries... imagine what someone might do with that!
flippin 'eck!! another moon-related Techmoan video!!
🎵Giant steps are what you take🎵
🎵Walkman on the moon🎵
🎵Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement
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🎵And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station To Station?
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🎵And Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication🎵
@@fordtechchris *THE MOON LANDING DID HAPPEN!!!*
@@LegoWormNoah101 I think it did too, but that's less fun than perpetuating conspiracy theory!
@@fordtechchris *CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE NOTHING BUT LIES FROM THE MIND OF A COMPLETE LUNATIC WHO WANTS ATTENTION AND MONEY!!!*
@@LegoWormNoah101 many conspiracy theories have turned in to conspiracy fact. Like Watergate, area 51, etc.
die Videos von Techmoan sind immer super.
Ich repariere viele Geräte finde es auch super immer mal reinschauen zu können ohne es vor Ort zu haben.
Schön das es auch fast immer so ist wie ich es mir denke.
The FFW-STOP lever is very pleasing... reminiscent of a vent slider on older cars
One of your very best videos. Thanks
Nice player pity about the battery, I think the Ni-Cad battery is ok to fly normally it's Li-ion that has issues even Li-ion is permitted if it's installed in the device then shipped from japan
I wouldn’t worry about the original nicad battery that came with it being absent as there is about zero chance it would still hold a charge after all these decades.
There are all sorts of weird embargoes that come and go. Security, don'tcha know. My company does a lot of shipping on airliners, and it's always an adventure seeing what new insanity the TSA has invented on a given day.
More and more countries are prohibiting the import or export of ni-cd batteries in general. It's not a safety thing, it's a pollution thing.
LimaVictor It makes perfect sense that they would not want a dead nicad battery from the 60s/70s to be imported as they would just have to recycle it. Better to leave it to the Japanese to recycle it.
@@Charlesb88 Considering it's an antique, i think it's kinda shitty. You need the old battery case so you can put a few new cells in there.
We choose to listen to these things, not because the sound quality is good, but because the sound quality is representative of the time, and of the other things.
"By the end of this decade we will listen to this device , not because getting batteries is easy; but because getting batteries is hard. ..."
I really hate that you can't reliably ship batteries, really sucks when you're buying electronics abroad.
Chinese don't care
@@hachikiina True but whatever customs it goes through often do
@@RisingRevengeance at that point its too late
My understanding is that if a battery is contained within equipment in which it's designed to operate, it is safe to travel in the mail. I wonder if someone in Japan was being over-zealous.
@@westinthewest That should be the case but I've had plenty of simple stuff like controllers stopped just for the batteries. In my case the main issue might just be EU as always.
One could argue that the familiar shape of the Walkman played a big part in influencing the iPod and all other digital media players, which carried over through to smartphones of today.
Also, I always enjoy the puppets but this is probably the first puppet sketch which got an actual out-loud laugh from me.
I feel Old Walkmans is more attractive (in feelings) than new MP3s amd iPods .. exciting!
Another fine video, very enjoyable.
Really think it is about time that Netflix or Amazon approached you about creating a series of 5 or 10 minute long episodes of puppet comedy gold!
Why is it ending, lots of time left? WAIT PUPPETS!!!!
I really admire your dedication to bringing all of these beautiful machines to our attention, you have an artistic way of going about it.