I had a portable cassette player in the early 80s I believe that was touted as being the world's smallest. It was actually SMALLER than a cassette! You put the cassette in it and closec it shut and about a half inch of the top of the cassette stuck out of it. I thought it was an Aiwa, but I have looked and looked on  EBay and have not seen one. I remember it being like a metallic yellow color. Anyone have an idea what it was or the model number? Someone stole that one from me about a year after I got it. Thanks. Ben R.

I think its an Hitachi player, I think walkgirl has one. 

I have one also

I thought so you have talked about it in the forum before. Is it you in the Youtube video? 

Jup, my video

I had one of those in red....sent it back tho as the belts were shot..

That is one awesome Walkman.

its a Sony I don't know the make or model but I had one, it was aluminum and had a goldish yellow color to it. it was collapsible, it was only a little bigger than an actual tape cassette. when it wasn't being used or you were just using the radio it folded into itself. it used one AA battery, and sounded about the best that it could for the time. I got mine around 86-87 and it was at least a couple of years old. I had to replace the belt in it because it broke. but I eventually got around 8 years out of it. and I would buy another in a heart beat if I could find one.

...you are talking about a WM-701 or 702 ?

Please tell us it wasn't one of these...

hahaaa, AO,

theeeere we got that oooold question - wich portable stereo-cassette-player is smallest 

MEASURING-METHOD:

1. take a breadbox

2. fill it up with rice, flat to the top

3. take the rice on a scale 

4. put your considered "smallest" unit in the box

5. fill up with rice flat to the top again

6. weight the leftover rice (...can count the corns if you want, even more precise & i would like to see that!)

7. do that with all those Walkman you consider "smallest",

THE ONE THAT LEAVES YOU WITH THE SMALLEST REST'A CORNS IS THE SMALLEST !

KT-AS10 = small

CP-88 = smaller

JP-5 = maaaaybe smaller

WM-701 = SMALLEST !

important: Walkman must be in playable state, incl. battery/gumstick and cassette, that's why WM-10-series loose !

...come on, dig out your coca-  eeeh tiny kitchen-scale 

Hi there,

SONY WM 10 is smaller than a tape (it has a slide out tray to take the tape). One came out with yellow trim on it, maybe that is it?

actually it was a wd 10  exactly like this one. I found this like 1 min after I posted that. its strange that they never really capitalized on the design and worked out the broken belt problem. it never had the radio I was mistaken on that point my memory was spot on with the rest of it though lol

Two important points here...

The WM-10 was a con, it was designed so Sony could claim the smallest walkman but in all honesty you had to expand the thing to accommodate a cassette and with the cassette inserted it certainly wasn't the smallest walkman.

The smallest walkman is the Sanyo JP-5 and not the WM-701.  The 'rice test' as performed by Bavarian monks in the 15th Century was outlawed 200 years ago and is no longer recognised as the official method of walkman measuring.  Using the tried and tested WxDxL method we concluded by an overwhelming majority that The Sanyo JP-5 was the undisputed king of the micros.

Here's the reckoning:

http://REPLACEMENT ERROR/topic...alkman-final-results

You mean, here is the indisputable scientific truth

GRRRRR 

...i'm off now, with a WM-701 and some sticky-tape in my pocket on the way to the next railway-track - wanna make a test - will let all you pharisees know the results - there's still some tolerance in thickness of a WM-701...