Steve Williams, my ever-vigilant audio guru friend just sent a couple cute links. One is for a site that archives old Radio Shack catalogs. It includes the 1939 catalog, although it is on that ...

The Elegant 60s Japanese Tape Recorder That Could Have Been the Future In an alternate timeline, your cassette collection looked a little different. By Sophie Weiner Published: Sep 01, 2017 12:26 ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, trying to thread a wafer-thin piece of magnetic tape through mechanical guides so that he could listen to ...

Walkman Cassette Recorder Player: AM FM Compact Vintage Cassette Tape Player with Big Speaker & Earphone Jack, Powered by DC or AA Battery Dingmi 172 ratings ...

Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands village of Duizel this month. He was 94.

Here's a video showing what each of the different devices sounds like, starting with 8-track tape, cassette in the cassette-to-8-track adapter, and smartphone playing through all the adapters. OK ...

The cassette gave emerging artists, DJs — and later, major labels — an avenue to distribute new music quickly and evolve from full album releases to singles, also known as 'cassingles.' ...

How a forgotten tape recorder led to Tunde Adebimpe's debut album : World Cafe The TV on the Radio cofounder talks about making Thee Black Boltz.

Dutch inventor of cassette tape, who filled teen bedrooms with music, dies at 94 Engineer Lou Ottens’ interest in tech was sparked as a boy when he built a radio with a special antenna that he ...