I was looking through all my various audio brochures/catalogues (I have a lot) and found this Sony one, this must be one of the first UK brochures to feature the TPS-L2, and although it's on the front cover inside it's on the last page, strange. Anyway I've scanned the entire brochure see what you think.
This is great thanks. Indeed an early one, with a TPS-L2 without the "walkman" logo on the door.I love that CFS D7. Maybe it is a translated Japanese catalog ,it is weird to start a catalog with digital clock radios , all products appear to be presented backwards ,most important the title of the catalog invites for "Portable Cassette and Radio" , it seems the original Japanese page arrangement was retained except for the cover.
Thanks for posting. I think you are both looking at the brochure through twenty-first century eyes. Back at the end of end of the 70s clock radios were the latest thing. I can remember one retailer advertising that the Digicube (like the ones in the brochure) would make the ideal Christmas gift. Looking for that I even found an amusing TV advert for Sony Clock Radios. In contrast the Walkman was a new product with no track record of sales. The person producing the brochure was probably following last years format, and wondering where to put this strange new product, a cassette recorder with neither a speaker or recording capability. This got me thinking; When was the first time you encountered a Walkman what were your first impressions and what products were competing against it ? To answer the last question a friend actually bought that strange ICF-M20L radio in the brochure, which had digital tuning but no display. It certainly wasn't cheap either. Other people I knew were buying Boomboxes, and Home stereo systems. I don't remember anyone I knew buying a Personal Stereo before I bought a cheap Sanyo in about 1983, and even when I bought that I didn't feel it was a must have.
