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.

This would clog up the player and more than likely destroy your cassette. The quality wasn't great either, especially when compared to CDs or MP3s. Tapes are proving a bit hard to get ...

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 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 ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, the medium of choice for millions of bedroom mix tapes, has died, said Philips the company where he also helped develop the compact disc ...

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: ...

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) ...

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." ...

My attraction to the format, like many of my age, I suspect, began in the 70s with the gift of a radio/cassette player for Christmas, no doubt purchased from a long-lost branch of Comet or Rumbelows.

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.

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report. Ottens, who studied to be an engineer, started working for ...