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  2. Cassette tape - Wikipedia

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    The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.

  3. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    An SQ quadraphonic record Analog, introduced by CBS Records for matrix and RCA / JVC for CD-4 Recorded two tracks on both stereo channels, requiring a decoder to hear all four tracks. Despite this, the format is playable on any LP turntable. 1971 HiPac: Analog, a successor of the 1966 PlayTape, using tape width of the 1963 Compact Cassette ...

  4. Cassette culture - Wikipedia

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    Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape (2016), directed by Zack Taylor, George Petzold and Seth Smoot, is a 90-minute documentary which, as the title indicates, takes a broader view of the cassette format and its history and features the inventor of the cassette tape Lou Ottens. It examines nostalgia for the format and its return as a medium for ...

  5. How Cassettes and Tape-Trading Shaped Hip-Hop’s Early Years

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    Created on four-track cassette tape, Dre’s swap meet tapes are some of the most dynamic DJ mixes of the era. ... Despite the recent resurgence in interest in physical media like vinyl records ...

  6. 8-track cartridge - Wikipedia

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    The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [2] from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. [3] [4] [5]

  7. List of cassette tape and cartridge tape formats - Wikipedia

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    Cassette tape, a two-spool tape cassette format for analog audio recording and playback and introduced in 1963 by Philips; DC-International, a format that was created by Grundig after Phillips had abandoned an earlier format that was being created alongside the Compact Cassette; 8-track tape, continuous loop tape system introduced in 1964

  8. Tape recorder - Wikipedia

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    A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978. An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.

  9. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    Voice actor Elwood Edwards is hired to record its now-iconic greeting "You've Got Mail" on a cassette tape in his living room, which is still used three decades later. 1993 : America Online ...