Portapak
The Portapak was the first light half-inch video unit, launched on the American market by Sony in 1965. It included a camera and a portable black-and-white tape deck.Thanks to a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Nam June Paik became the first artist to buy such a light video unit. He inaugurated his brand-new Portapak by taping the taxi ride from his New York studio to the Café Au Go-Go, where, on 4 October 1965 he showed the resulting tape accompanied by a text entitled "Electronic Video Recorder."