Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 9 - “Judau in Space” (宇宙のジュドー) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on home electronics in the 1980s, namely the Sony Walkman and the pocket calculator.

- Wikipedia page for Sony Walkman.

- Sony corporate website company-history pages about the Walkman and a timeline of personal audio products.

- Mashable article about the “retirement” of the Sony Walkman in 2010.

- A book on the Sony Walkman from a cultural studies perspective:

Gay, Paul Du, et al. Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman. Sage, 1997. Accessed here.

- Brief histories of the Sony Walkman from IEEE Spectrum (an engineering and applied sciences magazine), The Verge, and Time.

- How the Walkman evolved from the Pressman (with pictures).

- Article from nippon.com about the Walkman, on the 40th anniversary of its release.

- Wikipedia page for calculators.

- Paper on the history of the hand-held electronic calculator:

Hamrick, Kathy B. “The History of the Hand-Held Electronic Calculator.” The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 103, no. 8, 1996, pp. 633–639. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2974875. Accessed 14 Sept. 2020.

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