my first thought was not to buy a 30+-year-old Walkman. It turns out that modern cassette players kinda suck. When Sony ...

Not until the Sony Walkman came along. The first of Sony’s iconic portable cassette tape players went on sale on this day, July 1st, back in 1979 for $150. As the story goes, Sony co-founder ...

Attention, the 160 million or so owners of an Apple iPod MP3 player ... costly; Sony eventually decided on “Walkman” as a play on the Sony Pressman, a mono cassette recorder the first Walkman ...

The best Sony Walkman models are a topic of debate. Most, however, would agree that each of the following would make any list. The TPS-L2, later called the Walkman TPS-L2, was the first-ever personal ...

The dimensions of We Are Rewind’s Bluetooth cassette player are roughly the same as Sony’s first-ever Walkman from 1979 — but by the time the cassette Walkman ended its initial run in the ...

We Are Rewind’s Cassette Player is a throwback to Sony’s iconic first Walkman from 1979, the TPS-L2. Its metallic casing and simple rectangular shape are a clear nod to the original portable cassette ...

Cassette players ... to opera. Sony designer Norio Ohga built a prototype from Sony’s Pressman cassette recorder, which Ibuka took on his next flight. That paved the way for the first-ever ...