There is an awesome article up at the BBC website about a kid using his dad’s old Walkman for a week. Pretty funny/interesting quick read. My favorite excerpt:

It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.

Check out the whole thing HERE.