{"id":977,"date":"2015-02-20T22:11:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkman-archive.com\/wa\/?p=977"},"modified":"2015-02-20T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T22:11:08","slug":"guys-dolls-the-most-wanted-tps-l2-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/2015\/02\/guys-dolls-the-most-wanted-tps-l2-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Guys & Dolls, the most wanted TPS-L2 ever…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the TPS-L2 (see my review here<\/a>) was released on 1979-07-01, SONY still had not invented the ‘Walkman’ brand. In the first months they preferred to sell it under three different names:\u00a0Freestyle<\/em> in Sweden, Stowaway<\/em> in the UK, and Soundabout<\/em> in the US. But they quickly realized that that was not a good idea. They needed ONE brand. And the name ‘walkman’ appeared. So finally they released the very first TPS-L2 under the Walkman:<\/p>\n

\"TPS-L2_6_resize\"This\u00a0is the very first TPS-L2 series with the Walkman logo.<\/p>\n

And only\u00a0in the very first lot they decided to name both the headphone jacks with ‘Guys’ and ‘Dolls’, but they quickly switch to simply ‘A’ and ‘B’:<\/p>\n

\"TPS-L2_5_resize\"<\/p>\n

And… here’s what I recently got:<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/p>\n

Yeah, one of those super-rare units. It’s been so\u00a0long until I find one, but it’s really worth the waiting. Here you can see it compared to my other TPS-L2, a later version with the modern logo:<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/p>\n

The left unit is the first one and the right one, the later with the modern logo came a few years later.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/p>\n

And here you can see them with their respective soft case:<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/p>\n

Nice, huh? Both units represent a bit of history of the portable music players, as they were the first ones with the original and 2nd generation logos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the TPS-L2 (see my review here) was released on 1979-07-01, SONY still had not invented the ‘Walkman’ brand. In the first months they preferred to sell it under three different names:\u00a0Freestyle in Sweden, Stowaway in the UK, and Soundabout in the US. But they quickly realized that that was not a good idea. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":978,"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\/977"}],"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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}