Sony Walkman sound engineer Sato Hiroaki ... He asked an engineer to turn the company’s Pressman tape recorder into a playback-only stereo device. The resulting model was clunky: Headphones ...

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.

The invention of the Sony Walkman in 1979 changed all that (via ... ten years later when Sony released the Pressman, an improved recorder with a sleeker design commonly used by reporters and ...

Did you ever have a Sony Walkman ... time and the fact it was based on an existing audio recorder called the “Pressman.” The word “Walkman” has since entered everyday language but the ...

Over the following four decades, Sony sold more than 420 million ... fact it was based on an existing audio recorder called the "Pressman." The word "Walkman" has since entered everyday language ...

On July 1 of 1979, Sony first ... This original Walkman wasn’t the first portable tape player, but it was the first that didn’t have a record function. Portable cassette recorders had mostly ...

But a generation ago, if you wanted to listen on the go, you very likely did it through a Sony Walkman ... a modified version of a compact cassette recorder used by journalists known as the ...

Rather than come to Ibuka in a life-changing dream, the Walkman was a modified version of its Pressman mono tape recorder, which Sony had launched in 1978 and marketed to reporters for recording audio ...

Not until the Sony Walkman came along ... who built a prototype out of Sony’s Pressman cassette recorder in time for Ibuka’s next flight. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to ...

Sony’s Walkman, which turns 35 years old on July ... but portable (AEG showed off the first reel-to-reel commercial recorder in 1935, dubbed the “Magnetophon”). It took half a century ...

Sony eventually decided on “Walkman” as a play on the Sony Pressman, a mono cassette recorder the first Walkman prototype was based on. First released in Japan, it was a massive hit ...