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Original name of the Sony Walkman (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by lime@feddit.nu to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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Growing up, portable cassette players were always called "freestyles" here. I never knew it was a marketing thing, or that some other countries also objected to the naming.

this is "original research", which means i dicked around on the internet archive for half an hour. it may be wrong.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

that's what the disclaimer is for. i have no idea what it was called in ireland, but i know it was available and that the stowaway name was only used very, very briefly.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Haha, yes. Even as I wrote it, I wondered if it was just a case that Ireland was not listed for the UK market. Also inwonder d with Sweden having a different name was Denmark just an afterthought. Their languages are quite similar is often a similar market.

Perhaps multiple names were used for only a short period while the markets were tested.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 10 hours ago

swedish and danish are close grammatically, at least on paper, but common words can differ a lot.