Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1979-1981) Miscellaneous While interchangeable ROM cartridge games

While interchangeable ROM cartridge games had been pioneered a year earlier by the Fairchild Channel F

it shipped with a tiny desktop docking station that plugged directly into the headphone jack to charge and sync music

they replaced an incredibly unpopular

you had to drop a whopping $1

000 units in its first three weeks on the market and was ultimately discontinued in 2002

Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1979-1981) Miscellaneous While interchangeable ROM cartridge gamesSony Walkman TPS L2 First Commercially Released Portable Stereo Cassette Player The Sony Walkman TPS L2, launched on July 1, 1979, was the world's first low cost personal stereo, fundamentally changing how humanity interacted with music and public space. Originally inspired by Sony co founder Masaru Ibukas desire to listen to opera during long haul flights, the device was a modified version of a journalist's voice recorder, stripped of its recording