On a mid-January morning in Springfield, Mo., a tractor-trailer backs up to the National Audio Company’s loading dock and unloads more than 600,000 empty compact cassette shells from factories ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was lar… ...

But in the 2000s, as digital music on MP3 players dominated the market, cassette tapes and CDs gradually disappeared. Cassette tapes’ weakness — sounds slowed and lost quality after repeated use — was ...

As the world anticipates a post-pandemic era of 1980s excess, it’s the humble cassette tape and its clunky player that’s on the mind of top fashion brands.

I had a Sony Walkman portable cassette player, but I never listened to cassettes at home, LPs were the only format for me, right up through the late 1980s, when I started buying CDs.

Back when I came of driving age, the early 1980s, not-too-terrible-quality cassette recorders and blank cassette tapes were just becoming cheap enough to put mixtapes within reach of ordinary ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of the first personal computers allowed audio cassette recorders to function as digital storage. Never widely used, their transfer rates were slow, and the ...

Van Morrison never sounded better. I was listening to his recent album “Avalon Sunset” from a digital compact cassette (DCC) on the new Panasonic RQ-DP7 portable DCC player. This first … ...

Rewind to the 1980s as the cassette tape makes a comeback. Audio cassettes, which were cast aside in the digital revolution by the arrival of Compact Discs and internet downloads, are making a ...

Dust off your Walkmans, grab your nearest number two pencil and light the birthday candles. The cassette tape turns 50. Dutch electronics and technology company Philips invented and introduced the ...

Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, has died at 94. Continue to Variety SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your ...