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Regency TR-1
The first transistor radio. -
Raytheon 8-TP-1
The second version of the transistor radio. -
TR-55
Sony's first transistor radio made in Japan. -
8-track player
Ford Motor Co. introduced factory installed and dealer installed 8-track tape players in their vehicles to make music portable in the car. "Car audio" -
Panapet Radio
A round novelty radio on a chain, produced by Panasonic. -
Stereobelt
The first portable stereo audio cassette player. -
Boombox
A portable transistorized cassette tape recorder/player and AM/FM radio (CD's in the 1980's) with an amplifier, two or more loud speakers, and a carrying handle. -
Walkman
Cassette and/or AM/FM radio player. It was a smaller portable device that used headphones to listen to the audio. -
Discman
Portable CD player, produced by Sony. -
FM Wristwatch Radio
LCD digital wrist watch with a built in FM radio. -
Mini Disc (MD) Player
Sony produced a magneto-optical disc-based data storage. It would allow up to 74-80 minutes of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. -
MPMan device
Produced by a South Korean Co. SaeHan Information Systems. The first mass-produced portable solid state digital audio player. -
Advanced digital audio device players.
Portable digital audio devices that over the years can hold various amounts of audio and/or video. (ie. iPods) -
Cell phones with digital audio capacity
After the creation of more advanced digital audio devices, cell phone providers eventually made it so cell phones had the capability and storage to hold different types of audio.
