Sports Walkman: Sony's Go-Anywhere Portable Electronics! (Patreon)

Sports Walkman: Sony's Go-Anywhere Portable Electronics!

As the personal electronics craze exploded in the 1980s, people wanted to take their gadgets everywhere. Sony came up with a product line that promised to hold up to (mostly) anything their owners could throw at them. Featured music: "Disco Soul" and "Liftoff" by Discoholic: https://discoholicmusic.bandcamp.com/album/discoholics-anonymous Sources: WM-F5 photo: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/gallery/WM-F5/ Multicolored WM-F5 models: https://walkman.land/sony/wm-f5 Sports boombox photo: https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/329056 Sports Watchman photo: https://www.larkclub.com/gallery/2014/10586/ Sports Discman photo: https://www.larkclub.com/gallery/2018/35471/ MZ-S1 photo: https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f1057635077 Panasonic Shockwave cassette player photo: https://tyo.deedpowerfactor.xyz/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=10823 GPX sports cassette player photo: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1042450239/gpx-sports-cassette-player-radio-and My First Sony box photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125826219756 My First Sony commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n68TnOyoeU0 My First Sony product range photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mawari/30920462624 ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).