Sony's 1986 WM-W800 Walkman was the first portable cassette ...

Sony's 1986 WM-W800 Walkman was the first portable cassette player with the ability to record from one tape to another. https://t.co/6bPLx18XeX

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A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:

Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play