Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that plays first one side of the tape, then the other. There was the eight-track tape as well which did not have quite as much ...

Well, I’m talking about when 8-track tape cartridges ruled our lives ... it just threw your whole day off. Cassette tapes replaced 8-track by around 1980. They could run up to 45 minutes ...

One of several that you might have found in a well-equipped home of that period was the 8-track stereo cartridge, a self-contained tape cassette format ... The outer case is made from fibreboard ...