Achievement unlocked: Sony Portable Cassette Deck

It even has ferrite and ferrite heads!

In a rush of blood to the head I’ve gone and bought a Sony TC-153SD portable stereo cassette deck. I really, really, wanted one of these back in the day but I couldn’t afford one. But now I can. It cost less than a video game. The seller posted a video of it playing back music which sounds about right (although one of the channels is not working) and it is probably running slow. It arrives next week. I’m really looking forward to taking the back off and taking a look at all those discrete components.

Totally unrelated favourite line of the day: “I work in the civil service and at the weekends I’m rude to people”.