Walkman Archaeology

Portable CD Players 1991 from Le Haut Parleur

 

The death of the cassette from 1994 Studio Sound Magazine, some interesting observations in this article.

 

Sharp JC-568 from Stereo Review 1989

 

The Sony Walkman-2 from 1981

 

The beautiful Pearlcorder S801, I think this accepts the D-system Attachments from 1981

 

Some insight on cassettes and the developement of the microcassette from 1981

 

Since Watchmans were kind of grouped in with Walkmans, here's some more TV stuff from 1982. Sinclair was so close with Microvision but when the Sony Watchman came out it dominated the market over here.

 

Here come the MiniDisc from 1991 Audio Magazine

 

These are cool, I've got the ice-cream truck version, from 1982.

 

Citizen CBM 777 CD Player from 1989, very unique looking, anybody have one of these?

 

Sanyo M-G1 from ETI AU 1982

 

Another Citizen from 1986, the CDP-120 from Audio Magazine

 

Radio Electronics 1991 from Archive.org

Sadly neither DCC or MiniDisc had a big footprint in the US, I would have loved MD but they were very expensive and there was talk that you couldn't just record a mix disc and take it with you like cassette.

 

From the same issue some more information on the Sony MiniDisc

 

It's getting harder to remember what I posted, hopefully most of this is new, feel free to post anything related!
From Stereo Review, 1988 10 cool portable CD players back when they were still really good looking.

 

Denon AH-P5 Headphones from High Fidelity 1982

 

Technidyne's Hip Pocket Stereo, one of the first clones from December 1980

 

HiFi Stereo Buyer's Guide May 1980

 

Sony TPS-L2 From New York Magazine, July 7th, 1982 I may have written down the wrong date.

 

The Sony D-5 from New York Magazine 1984 with some interesting information on using it as a data drive for computers.