Heh, I still have a WM-D6C Walkman Pro. Works perfectly. I even use it occasionally -- mostly for nostalgia value, I admit, though with metal tape and Dolby C, it sounds great.
Sony hasn’t, however, retired the Walkman brand. They only retired the technology their first Walkman used. There is something similar happening at Apple, they will probably retire the technology their first iPod shipped with – a small hard drive – very soon. They already stopped mentioning their hard drive iPods.<p>I wonder how many more years the Walkman brand will survive and if there will still be anything called iPod you can buy in twenty years from Apple.