When the end is reached, either the drive operates in both directions or the user manually removes the cassette and flips it over. In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, a small, lightweight and ...

ioulex In 1979, when Sony introduced the Walkman—a 14-ounce cassette player, blue and silver with buttons that made a satisfying chunk when pushed—even the engineers inside Sony weren’t ...

We’ve bemoaned the end of the electromechanical era before, and the Verge recently interviewed the people at We Are Rewind and Filo to get the skinny on just why these newer cassette and CD ...