Happy Birthday Walkman
posted Saturday Jul 4, 2009 by Scott Ertz
The Sony Walkman is 30. Yay! Who would have ever imagined that 30 years later we still wouldn't be able to get away from the name? Before the Walkman phones from Sony Ericsson and the Walkman line of MP3 players and even before the red-headed stepchild, the DiscMan, the Walkman was a portable cassette player.
Not believing that people could actually carry around a device that large, Scott Campbell, a teenager who edits a news website, decided to carry one around for a while to see how reasonable it was. His friends at school made fun of him, he disliked the hissing sound and it took him 3 days to figure out there was more music on the other side. My favorite quote, though, was "It was the size of a small book."
"Did my dad ... really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?"
