The tangled old tapes stuffed in my cupboard are its epitaph | Caspar llewellyn Smith

Japanese manufacture has stopped and soon the world's first low-cost, portable music player will go the way of BetamaxFew objects evoke the 1980s as much as the Sony Walkman, bringing to mind memories of hours spent untangling chewed cassette tapes and images of Jane Fonda enjoying an aerobic workout. But last week the company revealed that it stopped the Japanese production of the Walkman cassette tape player in April this year, and once stocks disappear from the ''stores, that will be it.Even ...

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