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  • 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.