I'm RTB, I live in Berkshire, England. I just joined today but I've already read lots of very helpful posts on this forum so I thought I might as well get involved. My interest in music started well over 40 years ago when my parents bought me a cassette recorder for Christmas - a Waltham W104. Well it was a good few years before Sony started making the Walkman. I've always had an interest in gadgets, finding out how they work and if possible trying to fix them. This year I had a lot more free time to indulge and got into Minidiscs - a technology that somehow passed me by. Anyway I now have a small collection which I am restoring and some that I am selling. I also bought a few Sony Walkman models and some nice looking Aiwa units mainly as spares/repairs on ebay. Most of these had perished drive belts or battery corrosion issues but the Aiwa's have battery / capacitor issues. Well that's enough for my first post. Thanks for reading