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.

"TPS-L2" which becomes the first issue in 1979 was released, and Sony's portable audio player having a history of over 30 years "Walkman (Walkman)"It became clear that the model corresponding to ...

NEW YORK » The Walkman, the Sony cassette device that forever changed music listening before becoming outdated by digital MP3 players and iPods, has died. It was 31 years old. Sony announced yesterday ...

Doff your hat, put your favourite '80s tune on the hi-fi and prepare to pour one out for a dear departed musical legend -- the legendary Sony Walkman is no more. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and ...

Modern children are the worst. They don't know whether dictators are characters from history or fiction, they don't know what a rotary phone does, and now it turns out they can't understand a Walkman.

A Walkman tape cassette player with AM/FM radio was reported stolen Saturday from a patron in Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave., police said. The Walkman was left on a table in the main ...

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 ...

When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott ...

While a handful of companies are still making portable audio players, for the most part smartphones have replaced MP3 players these days. But before there were MP3 players, there were portable CD ...

We’re not sure how many of our readers actually remember the time of cassette tapes, but those who do will definitely stop and think about how time flies. Sony has now announced that they’re pulling ...

Often cited as one of the greatest gadget inventions of all time it has been squeezed out by portable CD players and latterly the advent of digital rivals, most notably Apple's iPod. Since its launch ...

Another icon of the 1980s is heading into the history books. Sony has announced that it’s stopped production in Japan of the clunky, but oh-so-cool-for-its-time Walkman cassette player. What’s more ...