With the Sony Discman D-88, the company tried to miniaturize compact disc players as well, but how easy it to travel with a portable CD player featuring a spinning plastic buzzsaw hanging out the ...

(The spindle cut-out is the same size regardless of total CD diameter.) Sony's D-88 Discman, introduced in 1988, imagined a world in which the Mini CD might actually be popular, and that people ...

In 1988, Sony endeavored to release a Discman that could actually fit in ... Sony went a different route with its D-88 and released something smaller than a normal CD. The D-88 was chiefly ...

The company says that one of its founder's goals has been to develop a portable CD player, and a former Sony engineer who worked on the original Discman was brought onboard to help make that dream ...

Fiio, a Chinese audio gear maker, is releasing a $179 portable CD player in September that brings with it modern upgrades the Sony Discman never had — including support for the wireless ...