How Sony's First Portable CD Player Kicked Off the Digital Music Era

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Sony released the world's first portable CD player, the D-5/D-50, at a time when mostly just audiophiles had adopted the format. But surprisingly (or not), the device had much broader appeal.

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Sources:
D5 inside EBP-9LC: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sonyd50.JPG
EBP-9LC photos: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/OE0AAOSwGJVfNBTv/s-l1600.jpg
"The lasser-disc revolution", Popular Science, May 1985.
"Sound to Go", Changing Times magazine, December 1985.
"Hot new compact-disc players", Popular Science, November 1984.
CDP-101 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lettore_CD_Sony_CDP-101_-_Museo_della_Scienza_e_della_Tecnologia_Leonardo_da_Vinci.jpg
1982 compact disc introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8
AC-D50 photos: https://www.ebay.com/c/1124613292
Rear of AC-D50: https://www.acquris.se/images/sony_d-50_portable_cd-player_7.jpg
"Go anywhere CD portables", Popular Science magazine, November 1985.
CD manufacturing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQmNjH92YA
SL-XP7 (silver) photo: https://www.rewindaudio.com/uploads/4/6/9/4/46947077/technics-portable-cd-front_orig.jpg
SL-XP7 (black) photo: https://imgur.com/gallery/wy220
TPS-L2 photo: https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzE4MzE2NA.jpeg
TPS-L2 ad: https://i.imgur.com/b1lYI5M.jpg

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