This portable cassette recorder was designed by the noted industrial designer John Vassos (1898-1985). Born in Romania to Greek parents, Vassos came to the US in 1919 and began studying design. Famous ...

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.

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

Japan's Funai Electric, which claims to be the world's last VCR manufacturer, says it will cease production of the machines this month. Funai started manufacturing video-cassette recorders in 1983 ...

The Fisher-Price PXL 2000 PixelVision could record low quality black and white video on cassette tapes back in the ‘80s. Photo: Mattel ()Some of our more veteran readers might remember that ...

Philips NV, the Dutch electronics company that created the cassette tape, announced yesterday that it is developing a digital tape recorder that also will be able to play conventional analog casset… ...

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.