Amaya Toman In today's installment of our series on the history of technology, we will not focus on computing as such, but we will recall a period that is important for this industry. Before people started carrying tiny music players in their pockets with music downloaded from the Internet, walkmans ruled the field. One of the most famous is the one released by Sony - and we will look at the history of walkmans in today's article.
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Even before Apple put thousands of songs into users' pockets thanks to its iPod, people tried to take their favorite music with them. Most of us associate the Walkman phenomenon with the nineties, but the first "pocket" cassette player from Sony saw the light of day already in July 1979 - the model was named TPS-L2 and sold for $150. It is said that the Walkman was created by the co-founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka, who wanted to be able to listen to his favorite opera on the go. He entrusted the difficult task to designer Norio Ohga, who first designed a portable cassette recorder called Pressman for these purposes. Andreas Pavel, who sued Sony in the XNUMXs - and succeeded - is now considered the original inventor of the Walkman.
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The first months of Sony's walkman were rather uncertain, but over time the player became one of the most popular products that went with the times - the CD player, Mini-Disc player and others were gradually added to Sony's portfolio in the future. The product line of Sony Ericsson Walkman mobile phones even saw the light of day. The company sold literally hundreds of millions of its players, of which 200 million were "cassette" Walkmans. Among other things, their popularity is evidenced by the fact that the company only stored them on ice in 2010.
- You can see all the Walkmans on the Sony website.
Cool. I remembered my youth. Well, not like that. I owned a few pieces. The sports walkman, the first MD, then the mp3 on MS cards. So I had iRiver Discmans.
Hello, thank you for your response. I had an MP3 player from iRiver, or rather a discman, which played music in mp3 format burned onto a CD. iRiver also has a rather interesting history, we will cover it in one of the next parts of the series.