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Sales of pre-recorded music cassettes in the US dropped from 442 million in 1990 to 274,000 by 2007. [58] For audiobooks, the final year that cassettes represented more than 50% of total market sales was 2002 when they were replaced by CDs as the dominant media. [59] The last new car with an available cassette player was a 2014 TagAZ AQUiLA. [60]
The phrase cassette tape is ambiguous in that there is no common dictionary definition [1] [2] [3] so depending upon usage it has many different meanings, as for example any one the one of 106 different types of audio cassettes, [4] video cassettes [5] or data cassettes [6] listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
Cassettes of various periods and price points can be sorted into three distinct groups: basic coarse-grained tapes; advanced fine-grained, or microferric, tapes; and highest-grade ferricobalt tapes, having ferric oxide particles encapsulated in a thin layer of cobalt-iron compound.
Gene cassette, certain vectors that are normally used to confer a selectable marker on an organism; Cassette cogset, a set of multiple sprockets on a bicycle; Cassette munition, a term for Cluster munition common in Slavic languages, particularly Ukrainian (касетні боєприпаси)
“Cassette culture” is an international music scene that developed in the wake of punk in the second half of the 1970s and continued through into the first half of the 1980s (the "postpunk" period), and in some territories into the 1990s, in which a large number of amateur musicians outside the established music industry, usually recording in their homes and usually recording to cassette ...
VCR-format video cassettes with one inside a case (left) and the other on its own (right). A CD is shown for scale. The VCR format used large square cassettes with 2 co-axial reels, one on top of the other, containing 1 ⁄ 2-inch-wide (12.7 mm) chrome dioxide magnetic tape. Three playing times were available: 30, 45 and 60 minutes.
During the 1980s, 20-minute VHS-C cassettes were the norm. In 1989 JVC increased the run time to 30 minutes by using thinner tape. [3] Later, JVC offered 45-minute and 60-minute cassettes. For comparison, 120-minute 8-mm cassettes became available in the late 1985 and quickly became the norm.
The closest thing is a header in bootable cassettes, which contains only 6 bytes of data and lacks a file name or other identifying information. The boot packet contains the number of records (up to 255) in the second byte, the low and high bytes of the address to load to, and the low and high address of the location to jump to once the load ...