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Though the cassette era is mostly over — the 2010 Lexus SC430 was the last car to have a factory-installed tape deck — some people still dig the plastic cartridges.
In "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," Marc Masters advances a case for the oft-maligned format as a revolution in listening.
NORFOLK, Va. — For people of a certain age, cassette tapes bring back a lot of memories -- from your first mix-tape from a significant other, to the unbelievable frustration of trying to tape a ...
Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.
Yet cassette tapes are having a moment. According to Luminate, an entertainment industry data collector, U.S. tape sales increased by more than 440 percent between 2015 and 2022.
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Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. According to Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, Ottens was 94 when he died on March 6th.
LIKE DEBBIE GIBSON, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back ...
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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 ...
Cassette Sales Have Doubled During the Pandemic – Here's Why Despite having been superseded in functionality first by the compact disc and then the digital file, the audio cassette retains a ...