In Apollo 13 movie, astronauts are playing music on their personal dictation recorder furnished by NASA. This little cassette recorder, considered as a proto-walkman, was part of personal tool of every astronaut in the Apollo program. Interesting article here https://cdm.link/sony-space-apollo/
Some excellent pictures of the real Astronauts and their Sony at the end of this thread https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/first-man-apollo-11-sony.3319/
Cool! I didn't read that before. I know astronauts did carry and play their mixtapes instead of blank cassettes.
I never picked up those old models when they're were more around 20 years ago, but I started to and glad, I never see them these days. The TC-50 is much more rare than the later early 70's models like the TC-55. Petervis has a TC-40 with a smoked door on his website which seems to also be very rare.
Space race era technological fall-outs did give us some gifts, like our walkmans! Nostalgia for those day, yes i’m a bit romantic (or aging?), where humans did fly for weeks inside a can… saying that this way, it doesn’t sounds so romantic yet.
Hello Guys, Great movie and I remember my Friend's grandfather talking about that walkman He helped put those guys in space ! So he loved tech toys anyway the Sony walkman I enjoy listening to is my model Wm-1 that I have had since the 80s Sincerely Richard
I love visual appeal of Sony's early models, like mine TCS-310, recently acquired and restored; I never was a good friend of headphones, can't stand them over my ears and do prefer speaker listening, so today I'm used to enjoy cassettes with it in my car: still excellent player, chrome/metal capable plus!
