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I think it's an economic issue rather than goodness of technology. CD players stayed in the $300 and up range for years after their introduction. I think I finally got one, a Sony CD Walkman, in the 1990s. Didn't own one before that ... still had a cassette player in the car and a cassette Walkman. Actually, I still have a cassette player in the car. And I still use it. I ended up with a bunch of cassette tapes from the clean out of crazynurse's house. They belonged to her husband, so they are over 20 years old. And they play just fine ... tape of The Wall Live in Berlin I and another friend taped off the radio.
I had my first cassette/radio boombox in the mid 80s. It cost me $44 at Silo. So, yes, it cost more than an ounce of weed.
My first VCR (VHS) was around $350 and it had a wired remote. Really fancy!
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