{"id":1441,"date":"2016-01-12T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkman-archive.com\/wa\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:31:06","slug":"the-pre-walkman-sony-tcm-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/2016\/01\/the-pre-walkman-sony-tcm-600\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-Walkman: SONY TCM-600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before SONY launches the famous first walkman, the TPS-L2, there were the personal and bussiness recorders. Those were used to take voice notes mainly, but they were not so popular between the youth or the entire population; they were just tools.<\/p>\n<p>But SONY used one of them as a start point to develop what will soon change the world forever: the TCM-600.<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491be555 {\n\t\twidth: 300px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-05.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491be555 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>The rest of the story can be <a href=\"http:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/gadgets\/walkman_sony_01_tps-l2_eng_v3.htm\">read here<\/a>, and everyone knows it: the walkman\u00a0was a world revolution. Here you can see\u00a0how evident is that the TPS-L2 derives from the TCM-600:<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491bcc02 {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Walkman-TPS-L2-TCM-600-Series-03.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Walkman-TPS-L2-TCM-600-Series-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491bcc02 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>I recently got this brand new, boxed, TCM-600 and I&#8217;m so happy to have this little piece of history. However, thanks to the excellent research made by Sotza user in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereo2go.com\/topic\/tps-l2-the-missing-link\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, it looks like the main\u00a0prototype of the TPS-L2 was derived from the BM-12 and not the TCM-600. Anyway, both the TCM-600 and the BM-12 are just close to identical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491b2e62 {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-11.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491b2e62 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491be110 {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-10.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491be110 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491bbb4c {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-01.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491bbb4c pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491b2d7e {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-07.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491b2d7e pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491b695c {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-06.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491b695c pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491b84ba {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-08.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491b84ba pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t<style>\n\t.pictureframe69d3491b3c22 {\n\t\twidth: 500px;\n\t\theight:auto;\n\t}\n\t<\/style><a rel=\"prettyPhoto\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-09.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SONY-Recorder-TCM-600-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"pictureframe69d3491b3c22 pictureframe img-align-center pictureframe-image\"\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before SONY launches the famous first walkman, the TPS-L2, there were the personal and bussiness recorders. Those were used to take voice notes mainly, but they were not so popular between the youth or the entire population; they were just tools. But SONY used one of them as a start point to develop what will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}