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A couple of random rectangular cells pop up when searching for "vintage walkman battery" but i'll need to measure the original & check the specs - sure I still have it too!
@spotter that's a handy reference, cheers!
I vaguely remember doing a bit of digging around for info a few years back but getting nowhere, i'll keep on it & maybe start asking if any of these YT electronics types fancy a project!
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Dug my own collection of walkman and discman out the other day, forgot all the Sony used those little rectangular chargeable batteries, and guess which idiot left them all inside the devices for 15 + years.
Have a Panasonic SX73 that I got as a replacement to whatever the 2nd to top walkman was of the early 00's (something failed, I think the charging circuit) and was happy with it as a kid, dug it out other day and with a single AA powering it, worked fine, drive belt seems to have survived. Reminds me more of a solid mechanical watch than a media player, friends had the early generations of Ipod (huge, slow, battery consumption of a small town), always preferred the walkman or discman.
So yeah, if you find a solution for the dead sony specific cell, please shout up! I think the panasonic uses same one, will have to examine the corpses more closely.