Walkman Become Musemum Collection

London - made ​​by Sony Walkman cassette player was legendary. For this reason, the museum Design Museum in London has recently added the first model of a stereo cassette player Walkman TPS-L2 as a collection.

Walkman TPS-L2 into one of 14 new museum's collections, including AK-47 Kalashnikov rifle. In addition to being a pioneer of portable music player, Walkman design was also praised and considered a classic.

"The Walkman has become part of culture and even a part of fashion," the statement Design Museum, as quoted from dailymail, Sunday (04/12/2011).

Walkman models were sold the first time in 1979. This device is very popular and in time 10 years later, 50 million people become owners.

Currently, the Walkman's fame began to fade despite various new versions have advanced capabilities. Sony can not compete with Apple's iPod music player that dominates the segment in the last decade.

Still, the Walkman portable music device remains the pioneer. The word Walkman even get into the Oxford dictionary Classic Dictionary to describe a cassette player.