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CD Walkman logo used from 1997 until 2000. Later Sony models bear the Walkman logo. Walkman is a Sony exclusive naming. Discman D-145 (1995) CD Walkman D-E330 (2002), with Walkman logo. Discman was a brand name used by Sony for their portable CD players. The first Discman, the Sony D-50 or D-5 (depending on region), was launched in 1984.
From 1997, Sony's Discman range of portable compact disc (CD) players started to rebrand as CD Walkman. [45] In 2000, the Walkman brand (the entire range) was unified, and a new small icon, "W.", was made for the branding. [44] From 2012, Walkman was also the name of the music player software on Sony Xperia. It has since been rebranded to Music.
It can play back MP3, AAC (unprotected only), and WMA (subscription included) files. It was the first Walkman with Zappin, a Sony function which allows the user to browse through tracks by playing a snippet of the chorus of each song. [55] The original model was followed by the W250 series coming in 2 GB (NW-W253) and 4 GB (NW-W254) capacities.
Newsweek chose the Sony MMCD player as a pilot platform for Newsweek InterActive, a quarterly CD-ROM magazine initially published in March 1993. [14] [15] The magazine was later released on compact disks for IBM PC compatible computers. No more than "a few thousand of units" of the MMCD version had reportedly shipped by 1995. [16]
CLOAD was a cassette and disk magazine for the TRS-80 which started in 1978. [4] The magazine ran monthly and provided tapes by subscription. [5] The magazine was named after the command to load a tape into the TRS-80. [5] Compute!'s Gazette, originally announced as The Commodore Gazette, was a spinoff of Compute! for the Commodore 64. [6]
A Sony WM-75 Sports Walkman. A personal stereo, or personal cassette player, is a portable audio player for cassette tapes. This allows the user to listen to music through headphones while walking, jogging or relaxing. Personal stereos typically have a belt clip or a shoulder strap so a user can attach the device to a belt or wear it over their ...
CD player Sony CDP-101 on display at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan. Demonstration CD players from Sony had the disc placed vertically in the machine allowing the CD face to be visible through a transparent front whilst playing. The CDP-101 instead opted for a horizontal tray-loading system.
The prototype Walkman was a playback only adaptation of the existing Sony Pressman, a compact cassette recorder and portable audio player for journalists released in 1978. [2] In negotiations that began in 1980 and ended in 1986, Sony agreed to pay Pavel limited royalties for the sales of certain Walkman models sold in his home country of ...