Well Walkmen are a little complicated compared to boomboxes, IMHO. Example; my WM-F73 needed a very minor bit of work on an FM stereo decoder fault last week (dry joint needed to be reflowed). The thing is a nightmare to dismantle! OK, so I have fingers like potatoes but even so, I can strip and rebuild a GF-9090 in well under an hour plus the time taken to do the job that led to its being stripped down. Six f$£**&^g hours I spent on that Walkman! And the evil yellow thing left me with such severe cramp in my fingers, wrists, shoulders, etc. that I had to pour myself a very large measure of OVD rum for medicinal purposes.
So I put it to you all that in fact, that kid was right; Walkmans (sic) are a bit difficult.
But seriously, how many kids really haven't seen a cassette and/or something to play it on? Maybe their parents don't have cars, which as recently as 2009 could be bought, split new from the showroom, with a cassette player/radio combo in the dash and the CD player hidden away under something. I accept that it's on the endangered species list but cassette, unheard of by a whole generation? No way!
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