A 1/8" inch, analog audio tape format that was widely used for music distribution and home recording. In the past, millions of pre-recorded and blank cassettes were sold each year; however, sales ...

Video killed the radio star, as the song goes. But people still listen to radio. Compact Discs sounded the death knell for vinyl, but records have bounced back big time. Digital music players and ...

When I bought the original Apple II with a 6K integer basic and 2K assembler/disassembler built-in, the big choice was between 4K of RAM or 16K. I splurged. But the bigger problem was mass storage. A ...

Vinyl records have been hot for years, and sales have grown to the point that this year they are poised to overtake CDs as the most popular way to buy a physical copy of music. The latest retro music ...

Let's rewind to the days before Ottens' creation. Audio tape was a beast to deal with. It was recorded and played on open reels of spinning quarter-inch tape, tape that would have to be threaded ever ...

The Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette has died. Lou Ottens was 94. As head of product development for Philips in 1960, he led a team that developed the initial portable tape ...

The once ubiquitous audio cassette is back and how! A recent news item in the media – about a fortnight ago – made fascinating reading when it stated that commercial tape duplication by the largest ...

National Audio remains the only US producer of magnetic tape for audio cassettes The cassette tape was king until the compact disk or CD passed it in 1991. One Ozarks business never lost faith in the ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the ...