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Shut down your iPod for the evening, cue the Hovis advert and relax with a steaming cuppa. Cast your mind back to the days before hard drives an inch square existed, to a time when you couldn't carry a pointlessly large number of songs around in a sliver of plastic and silicon the size of a couple of credit cards.

The year was 1984, and the maestros of miniaturisation at Sony had just released the WM-DC2 Walkman. Seeing as it's a piece of portable hi-fi, the DC2 only cost a small arm and a leg, but this was the gizmo every self-respecting traveller wanted hanging off their belt clip. Whereas today's MP3 players represent the cold, clinical, cutting-edge results of computer-optimisation and technicians air-locked into dust-free clean rooms, the DC2's timeless design speaks more of long nights poring over blueprints, and hands-on craftsmanship. It might be the size of yesteryear's mobiles, but the DC2 has a reassuring weight and classy construction mirrored in its sound quality. The goodies list includes an amorphous head, quartz-lock disc-drive capstan and Dolby C noise reduction. The result was that the a recording of the Hovis ad on the cassette formulation of your choice had an unusually solid, stable sound and useful frequency extension a million miles away from the sort ///lsquo;underwater///rsquo; warbling of lesser walkmans.

The DC2 may have burnt rather large holes in owners///rsquo,UGG boots Comments The Michigan Daily; pockets, but the smiles on their faces beneath those dodgy Eighties perms were well deserved.

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