The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 portable stereo cassette player came out 40 years ago. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg/Getty Images There will also be a cheaper version without any 40th anniversary branding called ...

Sony is rolling out a fresh addition to its Walkman family, the NW-A306. This new model comes 44 years after Sony released the original Walkman, the TPS-L2, which changed how we listen to music ...

The original Sony Walkman TPS-L2 went on sale for 33,000 yen / $150 / £219 in 1979, or around $650 / £1,050 in today's money. A working model fetches around $500 / £500 today on eBay.

The world changed forever on July 1st, 1979: the day that Sony released the iconic Walkman TPS-L2, the first real portable music player that would revolutionize the way we listened to music in a ...

TPS-L2 (1979): the original Sony Walkman. The TPS-L2, later called the Walkman TPS-L2, was the first-ever personal stereo cassette player that was available for purchase. It was first launched in ...

On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case.

The Sony first Walkman (TPS-L2) was born: The original Sony Walkman TPS-L2, launched in 1979, revolutionized personal audio with its compact design and dual headphone jacks.

Sony's new Walkman NW-A306 lets users stream music from Spotify; ... It arrives on the market 44 years after Sony released the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, which went on sale in Japan on July 1, ...

Sony Walkman, the Apple iPhone of its day is enjoying a nostalgia-fueled renaissance, ... “When I was in high school, a classmate had the first model, the TPS-L2. The stereo sounded so good.

The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 portable stereo cassette player came out 40 years ago. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg/Getty Images There will also be a cheaper version without any 40th anniversary branding called ...

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