Technology Wins Again

Late last year a friend and I were driving back from Devonport and I started using this silly old man voice.
My friend found this to be exceedingly funny, so over the weeks, we built up a bit of a persona for him, gave him some history and a name and all that jazz.
At my old place of work I had the opportunity to record short monologues onto cassette tape and I'd give them to her to listen to in the car.
Now that I started a new job, I don't have the opportunity to record these moments, so I began to look for old style tape decks that had a microphone jack.
I've been looking for a working one for almost 9 months now.
I have scoured the op shops.
Asked friends.
Visited the eco-salve.
I've had three near hits.
The first tape deck I bought for $6 from St Vinnies and the mike jack didn't work.
Then I found this old thing at the office and it seemed fine until I pressed the record button, the button itself fell into the machine and that was the end of that.
Then, at last, my dear friends Carrie and Nick had one but that was ca-cah too.
So in the end I wrote a letter.