When I was a kid in the late 80s and had a walkman I remember I'd rewind tapes by sticking the gears on a pencil and shaking that back and forth. That would not

When I was a kid in the late 80s and had a walkman I remember I'd rewind tapes by sticking the gears on a pencil and shaking that back and forth. That would not only save the motor but the batteries were lasting for a few hours tops and rewinding seemed like a lot of power waste. I miss and I don't miss those days at the same time. Tapes had a charm and the experience wasn't bad for the times but there were so many problems, the tape would frequently get jammed, as far as walkmans, the batteries were really problematic and would last from 45 minutes to a few hours. It'd take a few seconds up to half a minute to realize I had to change batteries as the music would drop in pitch, at first imperceptibly but then more and more until it'd just stop playing.