Discman

Sony D-50 Discman, 1984 The D-50 put the compact disc in a bag barely two years after the format arrived. It appeared in Japan in 1984 and was the first of Sony's Discman family, measuring roughly 126 by 130 mm and only 39 mm thick. The story that it was designed to be no deeper than four stacked CD cases is often told, though it may be more legend than brief. It was not cheap: the first British buyers paid £279.99. It still mattered, because it turned digital sound from something that lived on the hi-fi into something you could carry to a friend's house, and it gave the Discman name to a whole generation of portable CD players.