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Even though cassettes are in danger of being phased out by sleeker and sexier (not to mention more convenient) ways of carrying your music with you, they still remain an icon of the electronics industry. The Sony Walkman was to portable cassette players as the iPod is to MP3 players, a pioneer, and what all the lesser lights aspired... more »
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Walkman is a Sony brand originally used for portable audio cassette, and now used to market Sonys portable audio and video players. The original Walkman introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry music with them.
The device was built in 1978 by audio division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent transpacific plane trips."lem"> The original Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan, the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and the Stowaway in the UK. Morita hated the name "Walkman" and asked it to be changed, but relented after being told by junior
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The names "Walkman", "Pressman", "Watchman", "Scoopman", "Discman", and "Talkman" are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company. Sony continues to use the "Walkman" brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the "Discman" name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s. According to Sony, the plural form is "Walkman Personal Stereos", rather than "Walkmans" or "Walkmen" (presumably to preserve their trademark on "Walkman"). – Google search results for "Walkman Personal Stereos"
In March 2007, Sony extended the Video Walkman brand by launching its first all-digital, flash-based video Walkman, the A800 series, where A stands for "All in one", "Advanced", and "Attractive".
History and design
Cassette-based walkman
The blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2 (the first commercially available Walkman) went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979. In the UK, it came with stereo playback and mini headphone jacks, permitting two people to listen at the same time (though it came with only one pair of MDR-3L2 headphones.). Where th read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman
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