Chapter 744 Walkman (Additional Chapter 2)

The Walkman was invented by Sony in 1979. In fact, magnetic tapes have been around for a long time, and as early as World War II, people began using magnetic tapes as a medium for recording. Later, in the 1960s, cassette tapes were invented. Because they were easy to carry, they quickly became popular and brought about the prosperity of radio recorders.

The Walkman was a byproduct. At that time, tape recorders were large in size due to the electronic technology. Sony solved the problem of circuit miniaturization and made the tape player very small, which could be easily carried. The most popular way was to hang it around the waist. After hiring several international models to advertise, the Walkman became popular all over the world.

However, all this changed after the island country was occupied!

When the Red Army of the island country was brought onto the historical stage and began to rule the island country, it also meant the island country's break with the United States. In order to sanction the island country, the United States led the entire Western world and began punitive measures to increase tariffs on the island country's products, which led to high prices for the island country's exports.

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However, once these things become popular, they are always welcomed by the general public, just like the Apple fans in later generations who would queue up all night to buy a iPhone 6. This kind of walkman is also their favorite.

Electronic manufacturers in Western Europe and the United States also produce some similar products, but none of them are as beautiful in appearance and stable in performance as those from the island countries. Therefore, even if the price of the island countries' walkman is high, they are willing to spend more money to buy it.

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Now, Heinrich was amazed. It turned out that the tape-based Walkman, the mainstream product over there, was already outdated here! And because it was outdated, the price was extremely low, 80 marks! Only one tenth of the price over there!

What did the government say? The economy here is backward, people live in poverty, and they can't even get enough food! But how come the prices here are so cheap? If I sell some Walkmans here, I can definitely make a lot of money when I get them back to my own side!

However, it was not now. Heinrich continued to listen to the clerk's introduction: "The biggest disadvantage of tapes is that they are analog and cannot be located on a specific song. The sound quality is very poor. Therefore, we are now using CDs. The sound quality of this type is many times better than that of tapes. You can compare them."

The clerk took out a CD, turned on the switch, and handed the headphones to Heinrich. Heinrich tried to put them on his ears, and Aerosmith's famous song, I don't want to be something, came from it.

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Wearing headphones and closing your eyes, you feel like you are in a live music performance. The sound quality is not only much better than tapes, it's even better than records!

It turns out that a Walkman can achieve such an effect! We are really too backward!

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"How much is this Walkman? I want it." Heinrich asked. This thing is a high-tech product and the price might be very high. If it is more than 300 marks, he would have to take off his watch and mortgage it here temporarily. Taking this Walkman as a surprise for the child!

"240 marks." The other party said: "This is a new model. Here is an old model, which only costs 200 marks." The clerk's smile was extremely sweet.

"I want this one!" Heinrich decided instantly to buy a good one for the child! He had enough money!

Of course Heinrich didn't know that the CD Walkman had only recently become popular in Eastern European countries, and that this type of CD was only developed by Sony last year, which had established a full set of technical standards and applied for technical patents. If other companies wanted to produce the same product, they would need to pay patent fees to Sony.

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Because this product was newly launched, the price was high, and the high tariffs on exports to the Western world made it temporarily impossible to export this product to the Western world. Sony was still having a headache. As a result, people from West Germany visited East Germany today, and from that day on, this Walkman began to spread throughout the West. Western electronics companies had to pay high patent fees to Sony, and Sony became the leader in the manufacture and sale of this Walkman.

Heinrich was the first West German customer.

When Heinrich saw the Walkman being wrapped, the invoice being issued and the payment being made, he found that he could no longer walk out smoothly, as a large group of people surrounded him from behind!

"The Walkman here is only 80 marks, it's too cheap, buy one and take it back!"

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"I want ten!"

"The cassette player is outdated. Did you see that? The guy who just left was holding a round Walkman. That was cool! You should buy that one. It's only 200 or 300 marks, which is cheaper than the cassette player we have!"

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It was incredible! When the skeptical West Germans passed through the open gate and entered East Germany, they were shocked by everything here.

Just a Walkman is beyond their common sense, so why is it so cheap?

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If the Walkman was just a special case, then when Heinrich continued to walk forward and saw a personal computer store, he was even more shocked!

Personal computers! It was the 1980s, and even in the Western world, personal computers were high-end products!

Now, the personal computer that is popular throughout the Western world is represented by the IBM PC, which is equipped with a 4.77MHz 8088 CPU, 16KB of memory, which can be expanded to 256KB, 1 or 2 5.25-inch floppy drives, and a color monitor. The price is US$1,565, which is equivalent to about 2,500 marks.

And now? What was in front of Heinrich was a personal computer assembled in East Germany by a company called Berlin Radio Factory! The description next to this computer said it used a 20MHZ CPU! 64KB of memory, 2 floppy drives, and a color monitor. In addition to the keyboard, there was also a small mouse-like thing next to it, with a wire dragging it!

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20MHZ! Only the latest 80286 CPU produced by Intel Corporation in the United States can reach this speed! Since this CPU was only developed this year, it is only sold in the United States, with limited production and no distribution in Western Europe. However, the Soviet Union already has a similar product, which is a CPU code-named ES-1842s!