The Sony Watchman was must-see TV
To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when "TV" wasn't just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and 89 minutes, available on every screen everywhere for a few bucks a month. In 1982, when Sony first started selling its new device, "TV" was a piece of furniture. It was probably humungous, and often made largely of wood. Sony helped change all that.
For this episode of Version History, we take on the whole story of the Watchman. David Pierce, Allison Johnson, and Victoria Song start with the story of the Walkman (though that's another episode in itself), which was for all intents and purposes th ...