Back in 1979, Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka was looking for a way to listen to classical music on long-haul flights. In response, his company’s engineers dreamed up the Walkman, ordering 30,000 units ...

This solid-looking update of the classic Walkman form factor doesn’t quite match up to the technical wonders of the earlier era, when players could be literally the same size as a cassette case ...

It’s been a rough past two and a half decades for Sony, the 78-year-old company that invented ... Trinitron color TV in 1968 to the Walkman cassette player in 1979 to the world’s first CD ...

When the 35-year-old’s own children ... Pappavaselio handed her older child a used Walkman she had purchased on eBay and a handful of cassette tapes. “I went a little bit more into the ...