The '80s was a significant time in the tech world and while some gadgets were just plain odd, here are six that shaped how we use modern tech today.

The humble compact cassette was already more than a decade old in 1976, and its pros and cons had by then become fairly clear to most punters. It wasn’t a huge reel-to-reel deck as was used by ...

'80s fashion, home taping and cassette cultureIt was 30 years ago this week that Sony unleashed its iconic portable audio cassette player onto the world, forever changing our music listening habits in ...

The 1980s could well have been the Walkman decade. The popularity of Sony’s device — and those by brands like Aiwa, Panasonic and Toshiba who followed in Sony’s lead — helped the cassette ...

The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993 ...

Yes, I said cassette. This is quite a feat for such an 80s technology. As the title of this post suggests, 185TB is enough to house 47,000,000 music files.

Sony's new method means you could cram 185TB onto a single cassette tape. The average Blu-Ray disc holds 50GB and a standard PC hard drive 1TB.