Years before Sony was a ... Japan's first home tape recorder, the Type-G. It was a major crackdown, not just for their company, but for Japan's new post-war technology sector. They followed this by ...

Back in 1979, Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka was looking for a way to listen to classical music on long-haul flights. In response, his company’s engineers dreamed up the Walkman, ordering 30,000 ...

The last time Sony was worth ... TV in 1968 to the Walkman cassette player in 1979 to the world’s first CD player in 1982, in addition to numerous cameras and video recorders.

Sony would inevitably squish AM/FM radio functionality into the Discman as well, at which point the Walkman Radio didn ... basically just a cassette tape recorder and player designed to be ...

The Sony Walkman NWD-W273 arrived a decade ago. The waterproof and dustproof MP3 player featured a built-in speaker and microphone. The mobile device also included an FM radio and voice recorder. The ...

A friend recently asked if I knew where he could get a “vintage” Sony Walkman for ... like an AM/FM radio, a built-in cassette player and a recorder. It also has a few modern touches, like ...

While Thomson also has a Sony Walkman ... s student-run radio station, WRSU, collects audio equipment, mainly for analog forms of playback, and he listens to cassettes on a recorder and playback ...

The two-spool cassette tape debuted at the Berlin Radio Show ... Pressman cassette recorder, which Ibuka took on his next flight. That paved the way for the first-ever Sony Walkman model, the ...

Sony’s introduction of the Walkman in 1979 revolutionised how people experienced music by personalising what was previously mostly only accessible through concerts or the radio ... VHS players and ...

I was a normal teenager. I had Sony Walkman, Sony radio, everything Sony.” At least one collector confessed to having a thousand Walkmans in storage — with little to no interest in putting ...