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Retro Thing: Sony Walkman Turns 30

The original Walkman was released on July 1, 1979. But let’s get couple of things straight: Sony didn’t come up with the idea, and its success was due to revolutionary lightweight headphones, not the lowly Philips Compact Cassette.

The real credit for such devices goes to Brazilian intellectual Andreas Pavel, who created the first portable personal stereo players in the late 1960s.

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