The Walkman wasn’t a giant leap forward in engineering: magnetic cassette technology had been around since 1963, when the Netherlands-based electronics firm Philips first created it for use by ...

On July 1 of 1979, Sony first began to sell the TPS-L2, first known as the Soundabout and soon rechristened the Walkman. This original Walkman wasn’t the first portable tape player, but it was ...

Before smartphones, iPods or iTunes, there was the Sony Walkman, which went on sale four decades ago. More than 400 million have been sold over the years.

The Sony first Walkman (TPS-L2) was born: The original Sony Walkman TPS-L2, launched in 1979, revolutionized personal audio with its compact design and dual headphone jacks.

The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them. Photograph from Alamy ...

It was clunky, with big buttons and bright colors, and in the 1980s, every kid desperately wanted one. Before there was an iPod, there was the Sony Walkman, and Tuesday marks the 35th anniversary ...

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, introducing both a new concept in music and a device that would become an icon of modern pop culture -- a personal, portable stereo ...

This isn't the first time we've seen old audio tech brought back to life. Fiio brought the Walkman back at CES last month. But while I'm someone who loves retro tech, I'm also old enough to have ...

An '80s icon, the Walkman made Sony the undisputed king of portable music (well, until someone had to come along and ruin everything). It's natural to associate these game-changing gadgets with a ...

The Walkman supports a few file types, including MP3, AAC, WMA, and PCM. The first three are all lossy codecs, meaning that they're compressed and lose some of their nuance, having a higher noise ...

If you want a Walkman that's the most like Ellie's, then the WM-FX195 may be what you're looking for. It only plays cassettes, allowing you to put your old-school collection to use.