To brand Sony Walkman 30 years were executed

Japanese Sony marks 30-year-old from the moment of an exit on the market of the first portable player under brand Walkman. The first Walkman has been let out in 1979 under the name with the same name in Japan and «Soundabout» abroad. The device has been developed by engineer Nobutosi Kihara for general director Sony Akio Morita that he could listen to musical operas during frequent flights.

Names «Walkman», «Pressman», «Watchman», «Scoopman», «Discman» and «Talkman» are trade marks Sony, and have been used for the name of a wide range of portable devices for the entertainment, made by the company. Sony has continued to use the logo «Walkman» for the majority of their portable audiodevices after the name «Discman» for CD players has gone out of use in the late nineties, writes CyberSecurity.

Initial sine-silvery Walkman model TPS-L2 has appeared on sale in Japan on July, 1st, 1979. In the Great Britain the player with reproduction of a binaural sound and two nests for ear-phones has been let out, resolving, thus, to two people simultaneously to listen to music (though the player was on sale only with one pair ear-phones MDR-1). There, where at Pressman there was a record button, at Walkman there was a button «hotline» which made active the small built in microphone, the sound with which was partially imposed on a music sound, allowing one listener to communicate with another. Double nests and the button «hotline» were absent in subsequent model Walkman II.

In some devices there was also a record possibility. Professional Sony Walkman, making entry on cartridges, was Walkman Professional WM-D6C. It has been let out in 1984 and was comparable on quality of a sound to many of the best not portable audioplayers. Unusual to the portable device, Walkman Professional had a bright light-emitting diode and the manual control of record. It has been equipped quartz tonvalom and amorphous heads. Eating from 4 batteries AA, it was widely used by journalists and was extended among Hi-Fi enthusiasts; household electronics unusual to a product, it was on sale within almost 20 years.

Each five years on July, 1st, from release Walkman in 1979 to 1999, company Sony marked release of new model of a player for cartridges with unprecedented new possibilities. Each new model possessed the new interface, keeping characteristics of the previous models. Last Walkman series NWZ-A820 in sale has arrived in April, 2008.