When I went to the Tekserve’s Electronics Recycling Event I said goodbye to my old Sony walkman, which has now gone the way of the Polaroid camera and the floppy disk. Here’s a few notes from mashable.com’s obituary.

The cassette Walkman was the first low-cost, portable music player

Final batch was shipped to Japanese retailers in April

First generation Walkman was released on July 1, 1979 in Japan

Sony managed to sell some 200 million iterations of the cassette Walkman over the product line’s 30-year career.

Announcement delivered just one day ahead of the iPod’s ninth anniversary

The AP reports that while sales of the Walkman have ceased in Japan, the devices will still be made by Chinese manufacturers and sold in the United States and the United Kingdom, so the Walkman is not quite dead yet.

Src: Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years