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Lou Ottens poses for a camera, holding a cassette tape in his hand.

Lou Ottens 1988

Independent magazine encouraging people to shop for cassettes

Culture Cringe, 2013

a pile of 8 track tapes, one is taken apart so that the inside can be viewed

8-Track Tapes

RCA sound tape cartridge placed next to compact cassette tape for size comparison. Sound tape cartridge is almost double the cassettes size.

RCA Tape Cartridge Size Comparison

The first sony walkman model pictured with headphones against a white background.

Sony Walkman

"Spotlight" article from April, 1985 titled "Record stores sell cassettes with music by local bands."

Record store selling Mix-tapes

Black and white image of a telegraphone on a desk, phone attached via wires.

Telegraphone of Wire Type

an original magnetophon

Magnetophon

Black clear cassette reading "BASF Ferro Extra"
clear cassette with dark red label reading "Agfa Roscata"
black cassette with white label reading "home computer"
A Phillips CD One cassette side B

Individual cassette images sourced from https://www.tapedeck.org/archive.php

IMAGE SOURCES:

8 Track Tapes. n.d. Ajournalofmusicalthings.com. https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/gadget-history-the-story-of-the-8-track-tape/.

“A Telegraphone of the Wire Type” (1906). 1906. Usc.edu. https://scalar.usc.edu/maker/record/media/telegraphoneofwiretype.

Boots, Karen. Record Stores Sell Cassettes with Music by Local Bands. 1985. Ball State University Archives. https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/NoBarGBChaosR/id/239.

Culture Cringe. Culture Cringe Cassette Releases – Cassette Store Day Compilation. 2013. Archive.org. https://archive.org/details/culture-cringe-cassette-releases_202502/page/n5/mode/2up.

Jeh92. RCA Quarter-Inch Tape Cartridge, Shown with Standard Compact Cassette for Size Comparison. 2010. WikiMedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCA_Quarter_Inch_Tape_Cartridge_2A.png.

National Museum of American History. German “Magnetophone” WWII Field Tape Recorder. n.d. National Museum of American HIstory Collections. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_713300.

Philips Company Archives. Lou Ottens, 1988. 1988. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/music/lou-ottens-dead.html.

Sony. Sony Walkman TPS-L2. n.d. Sony.com. https://www.sony.com/ja/pressroom/pict_data/p_audio/1979_tpsl2.html.