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Panasonic Stereo Cassette Player RQ-JA63. The first portable audio player available to the general public, the Sony Walkman, was introduced in 1979 and sold very well.It was much smaller than an 8-track player or the earlier cassette recorders, and was listened to with stereophonic headphones, unlike previous equipment which used small loudspeakers.
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, Circa 1986.
The Sony TC-50 was a compact cassette recorder and portable audio player designed and marketed by Sony. It was conceived for the purpose of dictation but gained popularity with the general public after its use during the Apollo program lunar missions. It was released commercially in 1968.
Cassette decks soon came into widespread use and were designed variously for professional applications, home audio systems, and for mobile use in cars, as well as portable recorders. From the mid-1970s to the late 1990s the cassette deck was the preferred music source for the automobile.
By 1999, 20 years after the introduction of the first model, Sony sold 186 million cassette Walkmans. [26] Portable compact disc players led to the decline of the cassette Walkman, [27] which was discontinued in Japan in 2010. [28] The last cassette-based model available in the US was the WM-FX290W, [29] [30] which was first released in 2004. [31]
Few devices are as iconic as the vaunted Sony Walkman, which made on-the-go stereo sound possible for the masses long before MP3 players and iPods. The Walkman cassette player debuted in 1979 and ...
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