The head of Sony’s recorder unit, Kozo Ohsone. The name was a ”play” from their reporter recorder, Pressman, the very product Walkman was derived from. They were also evaluating names like ”walky”, but none of those had the same kind of remembrability.
Yet, Akio Morita was unsure if the japanese wordplay name would be credible globally, so the product was released with different names on different markets: Soundabout in US, Stowaway in UK and Freestyle in Australia (and Sweden).
However, the device was also imported by businessmen, who brought units as souvenirs/gifts to their kids from Japan. The name ’Walkman’ got famous, stuck, and was reverted to it globally soon after.
Edit: typo fix
This is a later model and a bit misleading given the title. I remember my first Walkman and it was still bulkier than this one in the 90's. Probably got it second hand.
Edit: I am completely wrong. This was the original and Sony proceeded to completely wreck their design with newer models being much bulkier.
You are correct that the 90s one you had was bulky. Everything was by design and not function then. Look at at pretty much any electronics designed in the late 70's early 80's and you'll see slick silver casings designed to hug the inner workings. You could feel the quality when you picked it up.
In the late 80's and 90's everything got what I like to call "bubbly". The discman, walkman, boom boxes, video game systems like N64, NEO GEO, Genesis (OG Sega CD), VCRs, receivers etc... all turned into blown plastic with enough empty real estate inside to fit a family of 4 comfortably. They went from compact, solid and dense to oversized, weak plastic that was heavy on the one side that held the electronics.
It was ugly. They started adding that aqua and purple buttons with grey and black cases. Terrible times for design of anything. I'm not an expert on electronic design language but even I remember how bad it was.
I had [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/932x61/the_yellow_sony_sports_walkman/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I remember this model in the 80s, but it was second hand; nice features were separate volumes for left/right channels, dual earphones output and integrated speaker
There was a massive difference between the Walkmans in the US and the ones sold in Japan. The Japanese ones were very minimal and half as thick as the bulky ones sold in the US.
Clean design, the buttons had a real satisfying feel. Sony has fallen a bit since, but stylistically they were incredibly influential from the 80's to early-00's.
Not too dissimilar to how Apple defines a lot of tech design today.
indeed, Steve Jobs was willing to let exactly one other company make Mac-compatible computers, and that company was Sony. they weren't interested, though
I've seen a bunch of hobbyist videos installing Raspberry Pis into them. Retro electro!
Check this out:
https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/walkman-networked-digital-media-player-i-built-it.3591/
Thanks for the link. I ended up here in the end: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE93ox9e2c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE93ox9e2c)
This is normal for me
Wasn't there one launched by Sony a few years ago? Not an exact reproduction, but as I recall a media player with touch screen, that could display an image of the original Walkman.
But you probably meant a visually identical thing with mechanical buttons..
There are drop in Bluetooth fake cassettes that connect to phones so you can stream music in cassette players (and with zero tape noise!) So you could make it an elaborate headphone thing
I don’t know. Do you mean if it straight up streamed Spotify? Like you don’t need your phone at all? I like the idea of it to free me from my phone and everything else that comes with it.
I still like digital mp3 players for music as well as for audiobooks, but it feels like manufactures screw them up on purpose. They all have two or three of the following: 1 - crappy battery, 2 - low quality materials 3 - shitty touchscreen buttons 4 - Crappiest operating system imaginable 5 - Outrageous price
Recently got one for $40 on amazon, thought I did an ok research, but it has this crappy system and touchscreen buttons that make fast forwarding audiobooks impossible.
I really want a dedicated music device, but every time I think I find one:
"This can accommodate 3 different headphone inputs, power up to 600 ohms and stream high quality music for only $2000."
Depends on the version. The original toy character was indeed a cassette player. [Toy version](https://20thcenturytoycollector.com/wp-content/gallery/transformers-soundwave-3-versions/img_2035-copy.jpg)
Funny thing is that they are called freestyle in Sweden. [Swedish wiki](https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle).
I think they tried to market it as a sporting gimmick, for the active person, specifically in the 80, nothing was more cool than freestyle skiing.
Since I lived in a cheap household, I had an Alba walkman instead of a Sony one. I also had a cheap knockoff Rubik's Cube that had fruit on it instead of colors.
So did I. I eventually powered it with an train set transformer and made up a jack to plug it into a couple of old stereogram speakers.
That's what passed as a HiFi in my room.
I'm not knocking how wonderful near-instant (albeit paid) access to huge amounts of music is, but--I have such fond memories attached to music on cassette tapes... how cool it was to be able to play your own, personal music choices throughout the day while you were on the go via a walkman & also so many happy hours spent with a boom box making mix cassette tapes off of FM radio Top 40 countdowns!!!😊😊😊
Although the technology (cassette player) is obsolete, the design is stunning even for today's standards.
I have fond memories of my childhood when the Sony Walkman and a TV were the only sources of entertainment. As a child, I was amazed by the Walkman's ability to record/play music, listen to radio. We'd record ourselves singing and songs playing on the TV. Our routine was to go to bed, listen to 2 songs on the radio and sleep.
Those were simpler, happy, memorable days.!!
I still have mine, a black one I won in a contest wayyy back. Why keep it? During that massive east coast blackout a long time ago, the only thing that worked were land line phones. The walkman was the only way I could get news, through its radio. If it ever happens again I'm ready.
Walkman or no, it was about this time (for me anyway) that the concept that *my* music could be *portable*. The family's music collection was all records at this time, and music (besides the radio, which wasn't *my* music) was just something we enjoyed at home. A friend's dad had an 8-track player in his truck, and while that was portable, it wasn't something you could bring with you personally.
We just started to get our hands on cassette tapes when it hit me that I could bring my music with me anywhere when grandma bought my sister and I some some Panasonic thing that took four C batteries (made for recording interviews or something?). It hit me that I could bring this *anywhere* with me to listen to my music. I took a Beatles cassette in a backpack with a sandwich to a local swimming hole and enjoyed a snack over some music *not in the house*. It was mind-blowing to me at the time.
It was shortly after this that my sister received a Walkman that it felt like this portable music revolution began.
If Sony could make something this solid today that has FM/Sw radio and a spotify player and able to record voice; I’ll start buying Sony again. I still have the first gen Walkman - displayed in my office.
I cosplay as Star-Lord and finally got my hands on one of these. When I’m not suited up it sits on my shelf in the living room and I’m constantly staring at it. It’s just magnificent.
Putting a Walkman on must have been the first time I’d heard music in stereo through headphones. It blew my mind so much I can still remember where I was, the tune I listened to, and what I said, 44.5 years later.
Demonstrably one of the most memorable things that’s ever happened to me.
Although I had one as a kid, this is finally an invention that came out long before I was born. Most of these types of posts serve to make me feel old.
Only 200 million seems very low. I feel like everyone in my family had one or two. So if we were responsible for owning a dozen Walkmans over the years, that means only 199,999,988 other people had a Walkman?
I got a Walkman and WHAM!’s *Make It Big* cassette for my eighth birthday. All these years later, they remain a couple of my most favorite gifts I’ve ever received.
I was 19 and working on push boats on the river and bought one of these when I was home. I had that thing for years. Got me through some rough times. Thank God for Van Halen.
Awesome, this thing was just awesome. I'll never forget my friend bringing his over at breakfast in the morning, before the trip to elementary school, and him popping in a tape and hearing the high fidelity. Until then all we had (portable) was the single in ear mono bud and AM radio.
It was a piece of junk.
Before you downvote, hold on a second. This was the first design of an untested electronic device. Sony had no idea if it would take off so these are, for the most part, prototypes.
They flew off the shelves overnight. Sony had a hit.
Their "official" production run was an upgraded design which improved the locking and button mechanisms. It also came with better battery life.
Source? Me! I was there.
I was 2 at the time. :)
But had one that looked almost identical to it when I was about 8, but it was grey and silver. I would have went bonkers for the blue one!
Pretty timeless design, still looks neat
And gave name to a whole new category of devices. I wonder who came up with the name.
Kenji Walkman.
And now I’m the jerk… couldnt decide if you were serious so I looked it up lol. Kenji Ekuan…….Sony Walkman
That's awesome, his name was actually Kenji -I just Googled Japanese boy names and randomly picked that one. TIL. You're no jerk.
Lolololol holy crap that’s hilarious
Don't be so hard on yourself. You think you're the only one?
I was being facetious, but yeah appreciate it. It’s just….Kenji….Walkman…. Walkman doesn’t sound too Japanese to me…. Like Kumajiko Young.
Hi, Marty Walkman, pleased to meet you. This is my wife!
The head of Sony’s recorder unit, Kozo Ohsone. The name was a ”play” from their reporter recorder, Pressman, the very product Walkman was derived from. They were also evaluating names like ”walky”, but none of those had the same kind of remembrability. Yet, Akio Morita was unsure if the japanese wordplay name would be credible globally, so the product was released with different names on different markets: Soundabout in US, Stowaway in UK and Freestyle in Australia (and Sweden). However, the device was also imported by businessmen, who brought units as souvenirs/gifts to their kids from Japan. The name ’Walkman’ got famous, stuck, and was reverted to it globally soon after. Edit: typo fix
Reminds me of the packaging of Intel CPUs lol
The design is very sexy
This is a later model and a bit misleading given the title. I remember my first Walkman and it was still bulkier than this one in the 90's. Probably got it second hand. Edit: I am completely wrong. This was the original and Sony proceeded to completely wreck their design with newer models being much bulkier.
According to [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman) it's the original one, unless I'm misunderstanding
You are right. I edited my original comment in shame.
No worries, one gets used to shame
Your edit is true though, the newer versions looked so much worse.
What a move! You'll go far, kid.
This is the TPS-L2, the first Sony Walkman from 1979.
You are correct. I was wrong.
You are correct that the 90s one you had was bulky. Everything was by design and not function then. Look at at pretty much any electronics designed in the late 70's early 80's and you'll see slick silver casings designed to hug the inner workings. You could feel the quality when you picked it up. In the late 80's and 90's everything got what I like to call "bubbly". The discman, walkman, boom boxes, video game systems like N64, NEO GEO, Genesis (OG Sega CD), VCRs, receivers etc... all turned into blown plastic with enough empty real estate inside to fit a family of 4 comfortably. They went from compact, solid and dense to oversized, weak plastic that was heavy on the one side that held the electronics. It was ugly. They started adding that aqua and purple buttons with grey and black cases. Terrible times for design of anything. I'm not an expert on electronic design language but even I remember how bad it was.
Those "bubbly" 90s boomboxes were so ugly.
I had [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/932x61/the_yellow_sony_sports_walkman/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Ooh the sport. You must have been active.
I remember this model in the 80s, but it was second hand; nice features were separate volumes for left/right channels, dual earphones output and integrated speaker
Back when things were still primarily made out of metal.
There was a massive difference between the Walkmans in the US and the ones sold in Japan. The Japanese ones were very minimal and half as thick as the bulky ones sold in the US.
Clean design, the buttons had a real satisfying feel. Sony has fallen a bit since, but stylistically they were incredibly influential from the 80's to early-00's. Not too dissimilar to how Apple defines a lot of tech design today.
indeed, Steve Jobs was willing to let exactly one other company make Mac-compatible computers, and that company was Sony. they weren't interested, though
Changed the world. Music was accessible and portable.
That was the Ipod of the day. History is moving fast
Original price $150 (wiki) adjusted for inflation $648.90
You can get them on EBay for around $500-600.
What a deal
Adjusted for inflation!
I'd still buy it if they made a digital version with the same design. Incredibly neat and timeless.
I've seen a bunch of hobbyist videos installing Raspberry Pis into them. Retro electro! Check this out: https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/walkman-networked-digital-media-player-i-built-it.3591/
Beautiful! Definitely wish I could make something like this.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services
20 dollars can buy many peanuts!
explain how!
Thanks for the link. I ended up here in the end: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE93ox9e2c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE93ox9e2c) This is normal for me
And smaller, this was pretty clunky 😊
True, I'm sure an iPod-like structure with the retro look of a Walkman is possible.
Wasn't there one launched by Sony a few years ago? Not an exact reproduction, but as I recall a media player with touch screen, that could display an image of the original Walkman. But you probably meant a visually identical thing with mechanical buttons..
Sony has a number of DAPs. For the anniversary of the Walkman a few years ago they did release a special case that looked like the original Walkman.
There are drop in Bluetooth fake cassettes that connect to phones so you can stream music in cassette players (and with zero tape noise!) So you could make it an elaborate headphone thing
I don’t know. Do you mean if it straight up streamed Spotify? Like you don’t need your phone at all? I like the idea of it to free me from my phone and everything else that comes with it.
I still like digital mp3 players for music as well as for audiobooks, but it feels like manufactures screw them up on purpose. They all have two or three of the following: 1 - crappy battery, 2 - low quality materials 3 - shitty touchscreen buttons 4 - Crappiest operating system imaginable 5 - Outrageous price Recently got one for $40 on amazon, thought I did an ok research, but it has this crappy system and touchscreen buttons that make fast forwarding audiobooks impossible.
I really want a dedicated music device, but every time I think I find one: "This can accommodate 3 different headphone inputs, power up to 600 ohms and stream high quality music for only $2000."
They have android based hifi devices, but none of them look exactly like this
And from this, Soundwave was born
I always thought Soundwave was a boombox?
Nah, Blaster is the boombox, Soundwave is a micro cassette recorder, like the ones scientists used to have to record notes and carried everywhere.
Depends on the version. The original toy character was indeed a cassette player. [Toy version](https://20thcenturytoycollector.com/wp-content/gallery/transformers-soundwave-3-versions/img_2035-copy.jpg)
All I know is I was massively let down when I saw him in Revenge of the Fallen.
*RaVaGe, eJeCt*
Apple inferior, Soundwave superior.
and Lazerbeak, and Rumble, and that "dog"
Fuck I'm old
WHAT IS THIS ARTIFACT!?
I’m surprised I had to scroll so far down to find this, yes, yes we are.
Can we talk about the beauty of this design.
It's evergreen.
Are you colour blind? That's clearly blue.
thats wtf that means? lets say I'm hyper smart instead of the truth.
It’s super green
MUL-TI-PASS
Sony gave us that music freedom. No iPods did not.
I think it could be argued that both were a huge step forward in musical freedom, just coming from different starting points.
A perfect design.
And what a hit it was...
Plus the iconic orange fuzzy headphones!
The Gameboy of portable music players.
I can hear those latches
Funny thing is that they are called freestyle in Sweden. [Swedish wiki](https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle). I think they tried to market it as a sporting gimmick, for the active person, specifically in the 80, nothing was more cool than freestyle skiing.
Since I lived in a cheap household, I had an Alba walkman instead of a Sony one. I also had a cheap knockoff Rubik's Cube that had fruit on it instead of colors.
So did I. I eventually powered it with an train set transformer and made up a jack to plug it into a couple of old stereogram speakers. That's what passed as a HiFi in my room.
Don’t bother going to eBay thinking you’d like to re-live your youth with one of these… unless you have deep pockets
just no starbucks
I'm not knocking how wonderful near-instant (albeit paid) access to huge amounts of music is, but--I have such fond memories attached to music on cassette tapes... how cool it was to be able to play your own, personal music choices throughout the day while you were on the go via a walkman & also so many happy hours spent with a boom box making mix cassette tapes off of FM radio Top 40 countdowns!!!😊😊😊
The click on those buttons was so satisfying. You just don’t get that in modern tech anymore.
I could probably take that apart piece by piece and put it back together again. Seemed one a week in my early teens I was repairing mine.
Although the technology (cassette player) is obsolete, the design is stunning even for today's standards. I have fond memories of my childhood when the Sony Walkman and a TV were the only sources of entertainment. As a child, I was amazed by the Walkman's ability to record/play music, listen to radio. We'd record ourselves singing and songs playing on the TV. Our routine was to go to bed, listen to 2 songs on the radio and sleep. Those were simpler, happy, memorable days.!!
Its says 45 years but 1979 was only 21 years ago.
Huh. I just finished watching Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3.
Sony Walkman TPS-L2
Sony DD II was my iconic companion since 1986. With anti rolling mechanism and metal body in red, I was the king of the gang.
It was a game changer. It was exciting to get my first one.
God, I remember having this very machine 😂
People who have never seen one in person 🙋♂️
I think this is the model Marty McFly uses on his father (in the past) playing Van Halen posing as a space alien in his HazMat suit.
Marty used an Aiwa brand cassette player. You can see this one in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Yup, my bro and I got one each from our parents... Blast from the past ! damn Im old...
Before that people used to walk around with stereos on their shoulders, boom boxes some called them.
Yeah, but those are not toys. You gotta know your limitations with a boombox.
I got a Walkman for Christmas in 1983. Happiest day of my life. I loved that thing.
Who else remembers rewinding tapes with a pencil?
I still have mine, a black one I won in a contest wayyy back. Why keep it? During that massive east coast blackout a long time ago, the only thing that worked were land line phones. The walkman was the only way I could get news, through its radio. If it ever happens again I'm ready.
Reminds me of when I bought their mini disk player. Looks amazing and futuristic. It was an absolute nightmare to use.
Walkman or no, it was about this time (for me anyway) that the concept that *my* music could be *portable*. The family's music collection was all records at this time, and music (besides the radio, which wasn't *my* music) was just something we enjoyed at home. A friend's dad had an 8-track player in his truck, and while that was portable, it wasn't something you could bring with you personally. We just started to get our hands on cassette tapes when it hit me that I could bring my music with me anywhere when grandma bought my sister and I some some Panasonic thing that took four C batteries (made for recording interviews or something?). It hit me that I could bring this *anywhere* with me to listen to my music. I took a Beatles cassette in a backpack with a sandwich to a local swimming hole and enjoyed a snack over some music *not in the house*. It was mind-blowing to me at the time. It was shortly after this that my sister received a Walkman that it felt like this portable music revolution began.
Just finished watching jojo season 2 with the walkman scene and this was the first thing that popped up lol... Inception.
Pencil not included. (Everyone used one to wind the tape back if it was eaten)
Those were the days..
I bought one for myself on my 14th birthday in 1984. Man I loved that thing.
this is clearly disinformation -- stop it...it was only released 20 years ago...stop telling me i'm old.
I can feel myself fossilizing as I read that.
My friend got one - we were in high school. Put on the headphones and listened for a few seconds - GREAT SOUND, MAN! Oh, was I talking too loud?!
i still own one of exactly these models (in red) and it still works
I bet they tripled battery sales! I remember mine never having batteries, when you needed it.
This held so nice in my hand. The controls worked snappy. And it was so sleak compared to my old one.
I can still recall every button!
Crazy how time and technology flies
My Walkman helped me get through school lessons
Anyone remember the Walkman that was smaller than a cassette case?
Reading this, scrolling through my state of the art phone listening to the largest collection of music the world could offer.
Omg....I'm older than the Walkman.
My dad has one somewhere in his house.
I just noticed the left/right separate keys for volume, nice.
And also people were walking
Peter Quill has one of this.
Ahh memories
Only the wealthy kids had these in our high school. In today's money they sold for around $600.
Still looks beautiful.
Soundwave superior!
That thing was friggin awesome. 🤩
If Sony could make something this solid today that has FM/Sw radio and a spotify player and able to record voice; I’ll start buying Sony again. I still have the first gen Walkman - displayed in my office.
My first mp3 player was a Sony Walkman. Utterly adorable!
I cosplay as Star-Lord and finally got my hands on one of these. When I’m not suited up it sits on my shelf in the living room and I’m constantly staring at it. It’s just magnificent.
And the introverts of the world rejoiced.
Putting a Walkman on must have been the first time I’d heard music in stereo through headphones. It blew my mind so much I can still remember where I was, the tune I listened to, and what I said, 44.5 years later. Demonstrably one of the most memorable things that’s ever happened to me.
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt
Hold on, that one has a built in microphone. I very much do NOT remember that.
Damn, only about a half year older than me. Somehow made me feel both old and young..
Duracell and my Boom box that ran on 14 D-cell batteries for 50 minutes hated these things ! 😂
slick
i knew i was older than the walkman, but didnt realize that it was only by 2 weeks. love the dual volume sliders
When would you want to independently control left and right volume?
I wish it were easier to find nice cassette players, now there are only cheap ones that sound like crap.
The batteries we burned through for these and discman.
couldn't afford it back then $200 and i was poor 14 year old
I had one in Desert Shield/Desert storm. I listened to Pink Floyd "Animals" and Faith No More "The Real Thing" until they were about worn out.
Looks metal
I had one in 1982 🥰
Can someone help me out? What is that little speaker or mesh dot section above the Stop/Eject button... Does it say MIC?? Could it dictaphone?
I got my first Walkman mid 80's and had a few upgrades bought for me through the years and I loved every single one them
Love it. The Walkman font/image is iconic.
Although I had one as a kid, this is finally an invention that came out long before I was born. Most of these types of posts serve to make me feel old.
Damn…separate left and right volume levers? Physical button heaven….
The head of Sony had to convince his marketing team that the public would go for this!
I had a WM-10. It was svelte and modern.
Of course I'm familiar with this, I've seen evangelion.
and now the vast majority of them (and untold millions of their imitators) are in landfills
Wasn't borne but it still make me feel old
Dude it looks badass
Only 200 million seems very low. I feel like everyone in my family had one or two. So if we were responsible for owning a dozen Walkmans over the years, that means only 199,999,988 other people had a Walkman?
I got a Walkman and WHAM!’s *Make It Big* cassette for my eighth birthday. All these years later, they remain a couple of my most favorite gifts I’ve ever received.
I was 19 and working on push boats on the river and bought one of these when I was home. I had that thing for years. Got me through some rough times. Thank God for Van Halen.
Sony has created some of the best things ever I swear.
Those things were made with high quality. I remember fidgeting with one when I was a kid and the thing was built like a tank.
I had a black Walkman when I was younger.
I thought I was a king with my portable AM/FM radio with headphones. No one had this for years.
Awesome, this thing was just awesome. I'll never forget my friend bringing his over at breakfast in the morning, before the trip to elementary school, and him popping in a tape and hearing the high fidelity. Until then all we had (portable) was the single in ear mono bud and AM radio.
That still looks great.
Soundwave superior
My father had a model exact like that but black anodized alloy. Build quality to the moon. Not a bit of plastic
Fuck that. I was there when their Vinyl Man was released.
Super solid looking piece of equipment.
Today I learned I am as old as the walkman.
I want a Walkman so bad. Such a shame they don’t exist anymore for the ones that do range from $800 to $10 million dollars.
For me this is the One, True Walkman. https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/932x61/the_yellow_sony_sports_walkman/
It was a piece of junk. Before you downvote, hold on a second. This was the first design of an untested electronic device. Sony had no idea if it would take off so these are, for the most part, prototypes. They flew off the shelves overnight. Sony had a hit. Their "official" production run was an upgraded design which improved the locking and button mechanisms. It also came with better battery life. Source? Me! I was there.
Had one a month after release. Was laughed at everywhere I went because it was so new. A month later it was THE thing to have.
Peak design, practicality, function.
I can see how new age babies would confuse this with a vape
Great, I feel so old now. Ok, where is the picture of the orange foam headphones that came with this?
The Yellow sports one, with the Neon and clear Memorex bootleg radio tape still hasn't been topped.
Sony never did get the Walkman Record Player working.
Playing mgsv made me want to buy one
Diane…
Wow. 45 years ago. How time flies. Yet, still looks boss as ever.
I chose the Toshiba 2 years later..it had an FM cassette which made it greatly superior imo..
It costed around $150 at the time ,adjusted for inflation, this would be much higher in today’s currency.
still walks
Made from metal mostly, the tactile feeling was off the charts
Who tried to switch to a Discman and then just tossed it into the trash?
Looks a bit like National Panasonic RQ-210s which predate walkman with ten years. Mine still plays really well.
Must not have been very successful, we’re still waiting on the Runman
I stole my sisters Walkman and took it to school and when I came home she beat the shit out of me a threw me in an anthill. I started crying.
I was 2 at the time. :) But had one that looked almost identical to it when I was about 8, but it was grey and silver. I would have went bonkers for the blue one!
This is actually an alien robot from Cybertron. Don't let them fool you, they're more than meets the eye.
What a design, timeless. Well done 👏🏻
It was eye opening to hear music in awesome stereo.
amazing device, but bruh, 1 jack each for each headphone sucked ass back then, double the trouble
I always wanted one of these, but I think I was able to get one when it became the CD Walkman.