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What I had was like a flat blue one, like it laid down flat, and I had a handle so you could kind of pick it up. And the power cord tucked into the back of the thing. And it had a battery up underneath the inside of it, a big lead-acid battery, it was a heavy old thing. But it had all those speed controls and stuff, you know, you could just play the regular tapes in it too. It was pretty good, it was mono. And then it had all the jacks on the side for various, you know, external speakers. And I had a pillow speaker, is what I had back in the day for that thing. Because I used to love listening to books while I was going to sleep. And nobody in the house wanted to hear my books. And I remember I had a bunch of money for my birthday when I was younger. And I bought the tape player because I wanted my own that wasn't like used by ten people before me, and the battery was dead. So I bought it, and it was like 400 bucks. And it had a fresh new battery, and it wasn't all scratched up, and it was, I really liked it. And I bought a pillow speaker with it. And then I went inside the pillow and it hooked up to the quarter inch jack. So it sounded really good. And then I started, I got an adapter for that pillow speaker and hooked it up to my bedroom stereo so I could listen to actual like AM stuff, like late at night. And listen to music and stuff through the pillow speaker, it was good. Because the tape player thing could only play cassettes and that was it. Then I had personally like micro cassette recorders that could record directly to micro cassette or you know you could hook up stuff like record from CD to micro cassette. Because that was an obsession of mine. For a while it was micro cassette, right? I could have this tiny, tiny little player that none of my friends had because they all had Wachmans. And mine had a speaker built into it so I could play the music out through the speaker, or I could use headphones. So it was kind of a novelty, right? The micro cassette recorder back in the day. Yeah, people liked it for the same reason you did too. Of course you could store things on those tapes. Oh wow, God. I had a, for a while I had a pillow speaker on loan. It was just at the W. Ross McDonald School where it was for kind of that reason too. I wasn't making noise and bothering anybody but there was just that concern of it. So one of my roommates at the time let me borrow his and I had to give it back. So it was really nice. You know what I kind of do, like did app, well on and off in the past few years when I was starting, when I was using the phone more is once in a while I would prop that under, like I'd lock up the keypad and then I would prop that under the pillow. And so that would be the closest to a pillow speaker I would get. Oh yeah, the blue machines, I like, yeah, people would use like a preamp. It had the line in things and you could hook up, you hook your Walkman to it, play the radio, you could hook anything up to it. So I used to do that all the time too. It wasn't half bad. Sometimes if you did that you could boost the external thing you're hooking up to, probably a phone even, and it would probably be a lot louder than the tape deck. So yeah, I like that. I like those hookups.