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Walkman Creator Leaves Sony

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the walking-shoes dept.

Gammu writes "Nobutoshi Kihara, the engineer behind the Walkman, has left Sony. In the late seventies, one of the co-chairman of Sony, Morita, requested the audio division create a portable tape player capable of playing his operas while he was on transpacific flights to the US. After less than a year, the Walkman was released to the public and revolutionized the music industry. Read about the development of the first Walkman at Low End Mac."

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  1. One almost unknown fact is by MemoryDragon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That Sony did not invent the walkman, it was a german guy and basically had trials for decade over the entire thing. He almost went bankrupt because Sony refused to pay, only after the old management left a settlement was achieved after decades of court trials and only a relatively small amount was paid. I am not sure if the german guy really has recovered from the costs of the trials.