Broadcaster Jang Sung-kyu met with producer Ko Dong-wan of the "1st Walkman PD", who first planned and produced 'Workman', ...

Before smartphones, iPods or iTunes, there was the Sony Walkman, which went on sale four decades ago. More than 400 million have been sold over the years.

Consider this: The first Walkman model, the TPS-L2, introduced in the summer of 1979, was equipped with two headphone jacks. Sony’s ads showed pairs of very different people—for instance, a ...

On July 1 of 1979, Sony first began to sell the TPS-L2, first known as the Soundabout and soon rechristened the Walkman. This original Walkman wasn’t the first portable tape player, but it was ...

The Walkman wasn’t a giant leap forward in engineering: magnetic cassette technology had been around since 1963, when the Netherlands-based electronics firm Philips first created it for use by ...

In this July 2009 File photo, Sony Corp.’s first Walkman is shown at a special display commemorating the Walkman’s 30th anniversary at the Sony Archive building in Tokyo, Japan.

It was clunky, with big buttons and bright colors, and in the 1980s, every kid desperately wanted one. Before there was an iPod, there was the Sony Walkman, and Tuesday marks the 35th anniversary ...

The original 'Walkman', model TCS 300, made by Sony of Japan. The TCS 300 was the first personal stereo cassette recorder manufactured by Sony.

NEW YORK—If you're a fan of music and of a certain age you remember your first Walkman, very likely a cassette player. Sony's brand evoked portable audio well before anyone ever heard of an iPod.