Don’t you think a stereo cassette player that you can listen to while walking around is ... 1997 — the height of the Walkman’s popularity — the number of people who said they walked ...

But when Ibuka was pushing for the Walkman to be mass marketed, the people at Sony couldn ... t you think a stereo cassette player that you can listen to while walking around is a good idea?” ...

Being my age, I see a lot of people, a lot of kids that ... In fact, Labelle’s cassette passion was fueled when his father found a Walkman at a yard sale a couple years ago and bought it for ...

But like much of humankind, the pre-Walkman reality is history. The iPod and smartphone and tablet computer are all life-changing devices. But the cassette Walkman is the most influential gadget ...

In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, a small, lightweight and belt-worn audio cassette player that let a person comfortably listen to music via headphones while walking or running. The progenitor ...

That was the case, however, for every single person ... the gadget a Walkman, a portmanteau of Pressman that made the newfound ability to privately listen to music while walking around a possibility.