Sony's Walkman will forever live long in consumer lore, enabling music lovers to carry ... TCM-410 and TCM-450 cassette recorders, but those shipments will cease early next year. ...

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 Masaru Ibuka got the wheels turning months ...

The 1980s could well have been the Walkman decade. The popularity of Sony’s device — and those by brands like Aiwa, Panasonic and Toshiba who followed in Sony’s lead — helped the cassette ...

Portable cassette recorders had mostly been used by reporters; this one, with its […] On July 1 of 1979, Sony first began to sell the TPS-L2, first known as the Soundabout and soon rechristened ...

LISTENING to Radio 3’s Sunday Feature last weekend I learnt more about the Sony Walkman Professional Cassette Recorder than I probably care to know.. This revolutionary lightweight machine the ...