Why the 8-Track Tape Kind of Sucked. Kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. Imagine if you will listening to your favorite song and it just fades out in the middle of the track.

National 8-Track Tape Day is observed on April 11 every year to celebrate the great music of the 60s and 70s that have been immortalized on 8-track tapes. Developed by William Powell Lear, a jet ...

To begin at the beginning, the 8-track was based on something refined by the one-and-only Earl "Madman" Muntz. Master Muntz was a businessman, engineer, and promoter who became famous—or, rather ...

In the 1970s, 8-track audio players were very popular, especially in cars. For a couple of bucks, you could have the latest album, and you didn’t have to flip the tape in the middle of a driv… ...

The much-maligned 8-track tape is a thing of beauty for a new museum devoted to the format. ... Excerpts from Wagner's The Ring cycle on 8-track. Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty ...

WASHINGTON – AI regulation is in the hands of "JCPenney leisure suit"-wearing lawmakers who still have "8-track tape players," which could mean trouble, says one Republican lawmaker. Last week ...

I never owned an 8-Track tape, but I remember clearly listening to them — a fact that sets me squarely in the midst of Generation X. Dad’s truck had an 8-Track player, and when it wasn’t ...

Eight-Track Cartridges The Stereo 8 was a continuous loop cartridge with the tape always moving in the same direction. By the late 1980s, the more convenient audio cassettes replaced the 8-track ...

Bomb technicians converged around the Sacramento County, California, Sheriff’s Department on Friday for what turned out to be an 8-track tape.

My first car, a 50-buck 1969 Toyota Corona sedan, came to me in 1980 with a crappy Sparkomatic 8-track player bolted beneath the dash and playing through the single factory dash speaker.This was ...

However, there are no 8-track players being produced today. The closest you can get is a refurbished version of the iconic Panasonic RQ-830S Dynamite TNT player, available on eBay for around $250.