antecedents

Before the cassette truly hit the American mainstream in the late 1970s, the premier format for portable music was developed… Read More

By the 1950s, stereo tape decks, akin to a standard record player, came into regular use in households in the… Read More

By the 1920s, the use of steel tape in magnetic recorders had begun to be researched and developed in England… Read More

The foundations of cassette tape technology trace back to the invention of magnetic recording, nearly three quarters of a century… Read More