What' s the best Sony Walkman? Perhaps one of the following models. Check out this history of the once-popular consumer ...

When Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, the company had no idea they would spawn today’s sound zombies.

Before anyone had heard of iPods, there was another name just as synonymous with portable music. Walkman became the generic name for a generation of pocketable tape players. But there was only one ...

Forty years later and Walkmans aren’t exactly popular to use anymore (outside of things like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, anyway), but the sea change that the Walkman caused in our lives is ...

Nostalgia combined with a curiosity among the young have created a hot market for old technology, including the once-beloved Sony Walkman. shaiith - stock.adobe.com Roll tape. Back during the late ...

The growing popularity of digital downloads has sealed the fate of Sony’s iconic cassette Walkman, with the Japanese company announcing that it will cease production of the device. The cassette-based ...

When I was a youngster, albums were most often heard in order. 8-track tapes were the only technology that could jump from channel to channel; LPs and cassette tapes were strictly sequential-listening ...

Nowadays people listen to music when they are out on a smartphone or if you're feeling retro, an MP3 player, but on this day 40 years ago the Sony Walkman was launched, paving the way for the personal ...

Cassette tapes have experienced an unlikely resurgence in recent years Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. An estimated 100 billion ...

The Walkman was just as big a change in the way we listened to music as the iPod was in the early 2000s. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, ...