Steve Stepp says they crank out about 30 million cassette tapes a year, making National Audio Company one of the largest cassette tape manufacturers in the world. For NPR News, I'm Suzanne Hogan ...

Sony sold more than 200 million Walkmans from July 1979, when the devices debuted in Japan, until the music stopped around 2010.Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Bose no longer sell audio tape players ...

The high-tech 80s cassette tape has had its 50th birthday. I can remember growing up my dad had an old car that had an eight-track tape player. I have vivid memories of him getting angry every ...

National Audio Company also designs and prints the cassette labels and inserts in-house. Since 2007, NAC is the only company ...

They were the MP3s of the 1970s, '80s, and early '90s, and were as fragile as LPs. I mostly used the format to make " mix tapes " to turn my friends onto new music.

According the site, the cassette tape was first launched by Philips in 1963, branded as a “compact cassette” made for home recordings. The magnetic tape encased in plastic was seen as an early ...