It looked like a white bowling ball with a flat black face. Mara grinned as she set the eight-track player on her work counter and read the label affixed to it: Welltron Spaceball AM-FM eight-track player.
She played with radio tuner knobs and flipped the tape portal with her finger as she got a feel for the device. She picked it up and rotated it to see how it was assembled, set it down again. A few screws on the sides and the bottom would release the entire mechanism from the casing. The controls reminded her of a cockpit, all knobs and dials, with a few slider controls. Every one of the external parts appeared to work.
She plugged in the power cord, and the controls lit up. She opened her junk drawer, shoved a few things out of the way and retrieved a black unlabeled eight-track tape,
