A Walkman Will Survive

Back in October 2010, I blogged about Sony's decision to discontinue the once-popular Walkman (portable cassette player for you young-uns). In that post, I wrote:

I still have my Walkman, packed away in a box somewhere. How well do I remember that beloved player, which more than once came to my aid as I pedaled my way 5 miles into a fierce 40mph Dakota headwind between the bowling alley on base and the sleepy town I called home, about which I've written previously. It was the Rocky IV soundtrack, as I recall, plus a number of other tapes I still have shoved in a closet. That Walkman also help pass the time on some long family trips. I used it up until my first year or two in college.

Ah well. The Walkman was my generation's iPod, I suppose. Am I now officially "old"?

Yesterday, while continuing the arduous task of sorting through items rescued from my former home, I found that Walkman. I put new batteries in this morning, and put in some Boston (also recovered from the wreckage). And what do you know, it still works! Acquired in 1983, my Walkman may very well be the only device we have left that will play cassette tapes (my wife's may also have survived).

It may be a relic, but it works, and that's just fine with me.