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 original 'Walkman', model TCS 300, made by Sony of Japan. The TCS 300 was the first personal stereo cassette recorder manufactured by Sony.

In early 2013, Sony will stop producing its three remaining models of handheld cassette recorders, meaning first the Walkman and now its cousins are on their final march to death.

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 ...

Masaru Ibuka, Sony’s co-founder, traveled often for business and would find himself lugging Sony’s bulky TC-D5 cassette recorder around to listen to music. He asked Norio Ohga, ...

Sony eventually went with models that could handle MP3s as well, but it was late to the game. In the new century, the company relinquished the portable music throne to Apple's iPod and iTunes.

My colleagues still dragged their Sony cassette recorders around and needed to copy their recordings to a tape recorder for editing and filing their story, usually an hour later. They looked enviously ...

By 1970, the Sony U-Matic cassette appeared. These could record 90 minutes on a cassette, but the recorders were still priced outside the reach of most consumers (although it was very successful ...

He then had an idea: take the Pressman handheld cassette recorder released the same year, remove the speaker and recording mechanism, and add a stereo amplifier. The Sony first Walkman (TPS-L2 ...

Goodbye Reel-to-Reel, Hello Cassette. In 1969, Sony unveiled its videocassette prototype, ... which became available in the commercial market in 1972 under the name “video cassette recorder ...