![Smithsonian on Twitter: "We don't mean to ruin your Monday but this turns 40 today. In 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2—the world's first portable music player—went on sale. This one is in Smithsonian on Twitter: "We don't mean to ruin your Monday but this turns 40 today. In 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2—the world's first portable music player—went on sale. This one is in](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ZKjT0UIAAI5bw.jpg)
Smithsonian on Twitter: "We don't mean to ruin your Monday but this turns 40 today. In 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2—the world's first portable music player—went on sale. This one is in
This Day in Music - 2nd July 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next 30 years they sold over 385 million Walkmans in cassette, CD,
![Smithsonian Collections Object: The Sony TPS-L2 “Walkman” Cassette Player, National Museum of American History | Bibliolore Smithsonian Collections Object: The Sony TPS-L2 “Walkman” Cassette Player, National Museum of American History | Bibliolore](https://bibliolore.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Walkman.jpg)
Smithsonian Collections Object: The Sony TPS-L2 “Walkman” Cassette Player, National Museum of American History | Bibliolore
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