The Walkman wasn’t a giant leap forward in engineering: magnetic cassette technology had been around since 1963, when the Netherlands-based electronics firm Philips first created it for use by ...

By the time Sony stopped manufacturing the Walkman portable cassette players in 2010, the company had sold around 385 million units. 6. THERE’S A SOCIOLOGICAL TERM CALLED "THE WALKMAN EFFECT." ...

Mr. Ottens’s cassette tape was about half the width of RCA’s tape cartridge, which had been released in 1958, and ran at half speed, requiring less tape and further cutting down on size.

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.

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. ... In 1982, when Philips showed off a production CD player, Ottens said: ...

Dutch engineer and inventor Lou Ottens, best known for inventing the cassette tape, died on March 6. He was 94. Lodewijk Frederik Ottens was born on June 21, 1926, and exhibited an interest in ...

The Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, Ottens died March 6, 2021, at the age of 94, according to an announcement issued by the Philips company. (Philips Company Archives via AP) ...

The 1970s arrived ushering in the era of boom boxes – portable players – and the Sony Walkman, both personal and portable. Cassette players made their appearance in cars from 1968.