Dictaphone Walkabout 5210 Digital Voice Recorder "488" Questions

I have a Philips 590 mini cassette recorder which is slow/sticky when rewinding. I think the unit is OK. Do tapes get old and stick? Hi, The 590 is an old model. The slow and sticking rewind would ...

...Playback and Fast Forward Settings (for example, point number 8 on page 4 of the manual for the 388/488 Model, which describes the 4-Position Switch with both Playback and Fast Forward with Listen-in ...