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Portable Stereo Creator Gets His Due
eadint wrote to mention an International Tribune article covering Sony's settlement with the inventor of the portable stereo. From the article: "Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 years of battling the Sony Corporation and others in courts and patent offices around the world before he finally won the right to say it: Andreas Pavel invented the portable personal stereo player."
In a way, Nintendo helped. Sony and Nintendo were working a joint effort to make a CD-based version of the Super NES. Nintendo screwed them over, and Sony went off and made the Playstation.
He filed a patent in 1977 for fucks sake. Tape recorders already came in stereo, they already had headphones, they already were getting smaller, my dad had a phillips one with a battery pack and a carrying strap.
t ory/superscopehistory.shtml
So what was his invention? What??
Similar in style to the tape recorder on this page:
http://www.superscopetechnologies.com/company/his
"In 1975, Superscope's product line included: eight portable tape recorders, six portable-cassette radio products, seven Hi Fi receivers, two tuners, three amplifiers, five stereo tape decks, six speaker models, five compact music systems, eight microphones "
http://www.grundig.com/index.php?id=250
1965 The Cassette Recorder C 100 is the first cassette tape recorder made by Grundig. Recording takes place with the DC International System, on cassettes with the dimensions 120 x 77 x 12 mm.
1967 The CC Compact Cassette is introduced and can be listened to with the Cassette Tape Recorder C 200.
1974: The portable Radio Recorder C 6000 Automatic is a best-seller. Over 710,000 units are sold.
He filed for his patent in 1977.