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In 1981 Sony released the second Walkman model, the WM-2, which was significantly smaller than the TPS-L2 thanks to the "inverse" mounting of the power-operated magnetic head and soft-touch buttons. Sony applied the "Walkman" brand to some transistor radios starting with the matching blue SRF-40 FM Walkman in 1980, [ 17 ] and added a radio ...
Between 2001 and 2003, Starbucks opened six (of 80 planned) locations in Israel [206] and having struggled with fierce local competition, Starbucks, along with its partner Delek, [207] [208] however, in April 2003, after losing US$6 million Starbucks Israel closed all six of its locations in Israel, citing "on-going operational challenges" and ...
Walkman II player from 1982. The Walkman effect is the way music listened to via headphones grants the listener more control over their environment. The term was coined by Shuhei Hosokawa, a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, in an article published in Popular Music in 1984. [1]
Also worth noting is that (a) Peter Quill's specific Walkman is of the original model, the TPS-L2, as pictured later on in this page (per [2]), and that (spoiler alert/tags appropriate here, if supported) it is destroyed in the second film by Ego and, in the end, replaced by a Microsoft Zune (this information should probably also be added to ...
[2] [3] Through the 1980s and 1990s, Sony created many versions and variations in the cassette tape Walkman line [4] such as the DD series and WM series. Below is an incomplete list of cassette tape based Walkman models. Sony Walkman TPS-L2, from 1979. Sony Walkman WM-F15, released 1984. Sony Walkman WM-28, early 1980s Sony Walkman WM-F77 ...
Texas's 5th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives is in an area that includes a northeast portion of Dallas County, including Mesquite plus a number of smaller suburban, exurban and rural counties south and east of Dallas, including Henderson, Van Zandt, Kaufman, Wood, and part of Upshur.
Gibson's early novels were, according to The Observer, "seized upon by the emerging slacker and hacker generation as a kind of road map". [8] Through his novels, such terms as cyberspace , netsurfing , ICE , jacking in , and neural implants entered popular usage, as did concepts such as net consciousness, virtual interaction and "the matrix ...
In 2001, he became an executive of VTEL Corporation, a company based in Austin, Texas engaged in producing teleconferencing equipment. In 2002, VTEL renamed itself Forgent Networks. [5] At the time of his death in Dallas, Texas, from complications relating to a stroke on February 23, 2002. [5]