Sony Walkman through the years
USA TODAY
July 1, 2019, 7:50 a.m. ET

A 1980 Sony Walkman 'Stowaway TPS-L2' is pictured during a press preview for the Victoria and Albert Museum's new Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art on Nov. 2, 2015 in London, England. The gallery will officially open on November 4 and features items including a Hello Kitty! rice cooker, toaster and kettle and the first ever portable Sony Walkman.
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Walkman cassette player by Sony.
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Sony Walkman cassette players. 1985
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A MiniDisc capable Walkman. 1992
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A model shows the world smallest portable player the MD walkman MZ-E2 produced by Sony, on Oct. 5, 1993 at the Japan Electronic. The disc player is 74 mm wide, 18 mm high, 106.8 mm long and weighs 205 gramms.
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Sony's CD Walkman. 1999
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Memory Stick Walkman. 1999
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The Sony Network Walkman. 2000
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Japan's electronics giant Sony employee, Fumie Kagaya displays ear-hanging styled digital audio player "Network Walkman NW-E8P" which enables the user to download digital music contents from the Internet and store a maximum of 120-minutes of contents on a built-in 64MB flash memory, at the company's head office in Tokyo on March 5, 2001.
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Sony Walkman MP3 players are on display at the Sony booth at the International Broadcast Expo Aug. 28, 2001 in Berlin, Germany. The Broadcast Expo is one of the world''s largest consumer electronics fairs with 915 exhibitors from 40 countries. (Photo by Nina Ruecker/Getty Images)
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A photo taken Dec. 6, 2001 shows women workers of Sony checking MD Walkman at the company's Sakado factory, 50km north of Tokyo.
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Japan's electronics giant Sony employee Hanae Kato displays the new IC audio player "Network Walkman NW-E95", equipped with 512 MB built-in memory enabling to record over 23 hours digital music contents on the stamp sized body, measuring 56 x 37.2 x 15mm and weighing 40g, at the company's showroom in Tokyo on June 22, 2004.
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Network Walkman had 20-GB of internal memory. 2004
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Japan's electronics giant Sony employee Hanae Kato displays the new tiny sized digital audio player "Network Walkman NW-E507", equipped with a 1GB built-in flash memory, FM radio tuner and an organic light emiited diode (OLED) display, measuring 84.9 x 28.8 x 13.9mm and weighing only 47g, at the company's showroom in Tokyo on March 9, 2005.
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A model displays Japanese electronics giant Sony's portable digital audio player "Walkman A series" which is designed to play the quality of compact disc audio, so called "High-Resolution Audio" in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2014.
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