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Happy 30th Birthday Sony Walkman! A history in pictures

'80s fashion, home taping and cassette culture

Tom Porter, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 5:46 pm UTC

Sony minidisc walkman

MiniDisc: Betamax for the handheld generation © Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters/Corbis

Other incarnations of the Walkman have included the Video Walkman (it played Video-8 tapes), MiniDisc Walkman, Network Walkman and the Walkman MP3 and current efforts: the Walkman Video MP3 and the Walkman Phones under the Sony Ericsson brand. None of which have taken off in quite the same style as the original.

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