Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular series on significant events in the field of technology, we recall two important premieres. One of them is the introduction of the first Walkman from Sony, the other the first GSM call that took place in Finland.
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First Sony Walkman (1979)
Sony introduced its Sony Walkman TPS-L1 on July 1979, 2. The portable cassette player weighed less than 400 grams and was available in blue and silver. Equipped with a second headphone jack, it was originally sold in the United States as the Sound-About and in the UK as the Stowaway. If you are interested in walkmans, you can read their brief history on the website of Jablíčkára.
The first GSM phone call (1991)
The world's first GSM phone call took place in Finland on July 1, 1991. It was conducted by the then Finnish Prime Minister Harri Holkeri with the help of a Nokia phone, which operated on a frequency of 900 MHz under the wings of a private operator. At that time, the Prime Minister successfully appealed to Deputy Mayor Kaarina Suonio in Tampere.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984) was published
