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A personal stereo, or personal cassette player, is a portable audio player for cassette tapes. This allows the user to listen to music through headphones while walking, jogging or relaxing. Personal stereos typically have a belt clip or a shoulder strap so a user can attach the device to a belt or wear it over their shoulder.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, Sony created many versions and variations in the cassette tape Walkman line [4] such as the DD series and WM series. Below is an incomplete list of cassette tape based Walkman models. Sony Walkman TPS-L2, from 1979. Sony Walkman WM-F15, released 1984. Sony Walkman WM-28, early 1980s Sony Walkman WM-F77, Circa 1986.
By 1999, 20 years after the introduction of the first model, Sony sold 186 million cassette Walkmans. [26] Portable compact disc players led to the decline of the cassette Walkman, [27] which was discontinued in Japan in 2010. [28] The last cassette-based model available in the US was the WM-FX290W, [29] [30] which was first released in 2004. [31]
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As the first portable cassette player, the Walkman transformed the way we listened to music in a pre-Spotify era. Originally priced around $150, refurbished units or those in mint condition can ...
Panasonic Stereo Cassette Player RQ-JA63. The first portable audio player available to the general public, the Sony Walkman, was introduced in 1979 and sold very well.It was much smaller than an 8-track player or the earlier cassette recorders, and was listened to with stereophonic headphones, unlike previous equipment which used small loudspeakers.