* 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.

The original Walkman was marketed in 1979 as the Walkman in Japan and, from 1980, the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and the Stowaway in the UK.

In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman in Japan, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee.

Walkman TPS-L2 ( 1979 ) with the breakthrough technology of affordable portable ' STEREO '

The metal-cased blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2, the world's first low-cost portable stereo, went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979.

Every five years since the Walkman personal stereo was born in 1979 until 1999, Sony would celebrate by coming out with an anniversary cassette model on July 1.

During the 1980s, the cassette's popularity grew further as a result of portable pocket recorders and high-fidelity (" hi-fi ") players, such as Sony's Walkman ( 1979 ), which used a body not much larger than the cassette tape itself, with mechanical keys on one side, or electronic buttons or display on the face.

A major boost to the cassette's popularity came with the release of the Sony Walkman " personal " cassette player in 1979, designed specifically as a headphone-only ultra-compact " wearable " music source.

Sony introduced the smaller, and now widely used, 3. 5mm " minijack " stereo connector in 1979, adapting the older monophonic 3. 5mm connector for use with its Walkman portable stereo tape player.

Sony began selling the very similar Walkman personal stereo in 1979.

According to the show, the Post-it notes were first sold in 1980 and the Walkman was first sold in 1979.

The first truly personal cassette player, the Sony Walkman, was introduced in 1979 and sold very well.

In 1979, Sony had introduced the Walkman in Japan.

In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.

In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.

Atari's management decided to enter this market, and the new technology was repackaged into the Atari 400 and 800, hitting the market in 1979.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

* In 1979, an asteroid — 1979 Sakharov — was named after him.

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

Two of the earliest commercial digital synthesizers were the Fairlight CMI, introduced in 1979, and the New England Digital Synclavier II.

Several later editions were made ; RuneQuest II in 1979 introduced many sophisticated game aids, such as Cults of Prax and Cults of Terror, and highly polished game scenarios, such as Griffin Mountain.

The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086 and was introduced on July 1, 1979.

Category: Products introduced in 1979

Kabaddi was introduced and popularized in Japan in 1979.

The first light ale introduced in Canada, Labatt 50 was Canada ’ s best-selling beer until 1979.

Mobile phones were introduced in Japan in 1979 but became a mass media only in 1998 when the first downloadable ringing tones were introduced in Finland.

Formally introduced in September 1979, Initial samples were released in February 1980, with production chips available over the counter in November.

Porsche introduced a refreshed 928 S into the European market in 1979 model year, although it was summer of 1982 and MY 1983 before the model reached North America.

The 4000 was followed by the very popular 4001 ( in 1961 ), the 4002 ( limited edition bass introduced in 1977 ), the 4008 ( an eight-string model introduced in the mid-1970s ), the 4003 ( in 1979, replacing the 4001 entirely in 1986 and still in production in 2012 ), and most recently the 4004 series.

With Richard Lewontin, Gould wrote an influential 1979 paper entitled, " The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm ", which introduced the architectural term " spandrel " into evolutionary biology.

In 1979 Ronald Reagan visited the NORAD command base under Cheyenne Mountain where he was first introduced to the extensive tracking and detection systems extending throughout the world and into space.

In 1979, IBM introduced TPF as a replacement for ACP — and as a priced software product.

* The Maintenance Security Law ( 1979 ), which introduced public advance payments for single parents “ not in receipt of maintenance payments from the liable parent .” These benefits were made payable up to 36 months, and private claims against a parent not meeting a maintenance liability were taken over by the state.

The Mk II model was introduced in late 1979.

This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children from 1979.

Range encoding is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976.

Frequently seen examples include the Black & Decker DustBuster, introduced in 1979, and the various hand-held models from Dirt Devil, first introduced in 1984.

The notion of communication complexity was introduced by Yao in 1979,

The show's trademark green slime dousing prank was introduced in 1979, as was the practice of using the phrase " I don't know " as a trigger for the prank.

This feature of the show was also introduced during its first season in 1979 and continued until the end of the series in 1990, with the lockers themselves undergoing a few minor physical makeovers during the show's early years.