Over the past few years I’ve acquired a few Walkmen and some other cassette equipment, the first of which was my Mums old WM-25 from she got on her 16th birthday. This seemed like a great place to find information and diy/restoration help!
Great story, I bet a lot of us our your mom's age and it's nice to see you kids enjoying the cool toys we had. Walkmans were very personal for us and the cassettes had to be good because battery life stinks and you didn't want to waste it on crappy music.