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

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 ...

Sony announced on Monday that it is shutting down production of the Walkman. Talk about ending with a whimper: Who knew that portable cassette players were still being made at all? But, please, a ...

After 30 years in production, the once-ubiquitous Walkman cassette tape player is going the way of the dinosaur and floppy disks-at least in Japan, according to manufacturer Sony. The company said its ...

This week, the totemic item of the ‘80s, the must-have for a generation of mixtape-makers, the reason you have to say everything to me twice, the Sony Walkman turns 40. Let us briefly look up from our ...

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 ...

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, introducing both a new concept in music and a device that would become an icon of modern pop culture -- a personal, portable stereo.

In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman. It wasn’t my dad’s Walkman, which was adult, boring, and gray. While I can’t quite ...

We are a team of writers, experimenters and researchers providing you with the best advice with zero bias or partiality. Why: The Walkman was the first pocket-sized, low-cost stereo music player and ...

Cassette tapes are making a comeback - and with this month being the 37th anniversary of the Sony Walkman's introduction in 1979, we sent Day 6 producer Michelle Macklem to investigate what the deal ...