This Does Not Compute | Sports Walkman: Sony's Go-Anywhere Portable Electronics! @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
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: discoholicmusic.bandcamp.com/album/discoholics-anonymous

Sources:
WM-F5 photo: sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/gallery/WM-F5
Multicolored WM-F5 models: https://walkman.land/sony/wm-f5
Sports boombox photo: philamuseum.org/collection/object/329056
Sports Watchman photo: larkclub.com/gallery/2014/10586
Sports Discman photo: larkclub.com/gallery/2018/35471
MZ-S1 photo: 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: etsy.com/listing/1042450239/gpx-sports-cassette-player-radio-and
My First Sony box photo: ebay.com/itm/125826219756
My First Sony commercial: youtube.com/watch?v=n68TnOyoeU0
My First Sony product range photo: flickr.com/photos/mawari/30920462624

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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).