{"id":2246,"date":"2010-10-25T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2010\/10\/25\/sony-retires-the-cassett-walkman\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:08:23","slug":"sony-retires-the-cassette-walkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2010\/10\/25\/sony-retires-the-cassette-walkman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony retires the cassette Walkman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;I saw this and my immediate reaction was, &#8220;They still sell the cassette Walkman?&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/gaming.gadgets\/10\/25\/sony.retires.walkman.mashable\/index.html?hpt=C2\">Apparently they do\/did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The final batch was shipped to Japanese retailers in April, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\/translate?u=http:\/\/plusd.itmedia.co.jp\/lifestyle\/articles\/1010\/22\/news072.html&amp;sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"new\">IT Media<\/a>. Once these units are sold, new cassette Walkmans will no longer be available through the manufacturer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230;I saw this and my immediate reaction was, &#8220;They still sell the cassette Walkman?&#8221;. Apparently they do\/did. After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2010\/10\/25\/sony-retires-the-cassette-walkman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-Ae","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}