Summary
BEFORE 1979, the only way to have portable, walking-around music was to carry a large boom box on you shoulder, deafening yourself and anybody nearby. And people did, at great inconvenience to themselves and others.
But in mid-1979 there appeared the Sony Walkman, a cassette player the size of a paperback with a pair of lightweight earphones. When it was first introduced, a Walkman marked its owner as technologically forward thinking, much as the race to pack as many functions - phone, music, Internet, texting, camera - into ever smaller devices does today.See the full content of this document
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Another View: Walkman Is History
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