Sony has announced that they will no longer be producing the Walkman tape player which made its debut in 1979 due to poor sales. Long before the iPod or the portable CD player over 220 million Walkmans were sold, but the last batch that will ever be produced left the factory this April so once that sells out good luck getting one.
Get sentimental about your first portable tape player in the comments section
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I rememeber my first Walkman.. my parents bought me a Bruce Springsteen tape.. “Born in the USA”. I hated that tape.
I’m surprised that they were still manufacturing those, up until as recently as 6 months ago. I would’ve thought that they stopped making them around the turn of the century and the increase in popularity of CD players and later iPods. *shrugs*
You learn something new every day, huh?
Well, my first cassette tapes were Run DMC’s; “Raising Hell” and the Beastie Boys; “Licensed to Ill”, when I was a young whippier snapper in the 3rd grade.
Thanks for the memories, Life!
…people still listen to cassettes, lmao.
I still buy blank casset tapes and use my panasonic tape recorder/walkman for choir reharsal. As a matter of fact, it’s a requirement.