I'm here for the nostalgia. Started collecting cassettes last year, currently using a Marantz PMD 350. Also I have some portable cassette players for example the Sony WM 31.
I used to see those Marantz's at the ice rinks all the time, the figure skaters would use them for the music but one day...boom...they all disappeared. Now they plug digital into a jack.
It figures, for a long time cassette players and decks were worthless and most of them did get tossed out.