As Sony retires milestone music player in Japan, "The Conversation" looks back. Oct. 25, 2010 — -- The Sony Walkman is about to go mute, but it's not because the AA batteries are running out ...

Quick LinksWhy Cassettes?New Cassette Players SuckReconnecting With My PastIt's been over 20 years since Sony released a cassette player, and cassette sales are so minuscule they barely show up on ...

Largely thanks to the boombox (first released in 1966) and the iconic Sony Walkman (first released in 1979), cassette tapes allowed you to listen to music outside your home and wherever you like. In ...

The Sony Walkman WM-2 cassette player was the second Walkman model. It was the world’s smallest stereo cassette player at that time, ... The best tape players will have you rockin’ and a rollin’ in no ...

The first of Sony’s iconic portable cassette tape players went on sale on this day, July 1st, back in 1979 for $150. As the story goes, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka got the wheels turning months ...

Sony's iconic personal stereo music player, the Walkman, turns 35 on July 1, 2014. Sign Up for Our Ideas ... monaural tape recorder Sony had begun selling in 1977 and targeted at members of ...

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 ...

My ‘Walkman’ – it didn’t matter the brand, all portable tape players were referred to as a Walkman back then ... At the time of the Sony Walkman TPS-L2's launch in 1979, ...

Even though it's a long time since cassettes have truly been in vogue, it's still disappointing Sony's 40th anniversary Walkman doesn't let you play music from magnetic tape. If you do pick up the ...

But Sony will have to pack all of the sentimentality of the Walkman into a modern device. That means Sony has a big pair of Air Jordans to fill with the NW-A306. The subtle quirkiness of legacy ...