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The compact cassette was a Philips invention, ... Philips introduced the first-ever in-car compact cassette player, the Type RN582, in 1968, and the rest, as they say, is history.
A TRUE cassette was one you left on your car dashboard, ... Why cassette players “making a comeback” ... and just replaced my old BT Philips Bass+ cans for JBLs also Bletooth.
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.
Your car’s USB port can come to the rescue here and power the cassette player. If you look online you will find a number of portable cassette players with USB connection. They sell for under $25.
I remember seeing a prototype (or something similar) of this kind of device maybe a couple of years ago and thought it was a pretty good idea. For those ...
Keith Richards recalls the effect of portable cassette recording on his music, part of a new tribute to the just-discontinued Walkman by my friend and historian of popular technology Phil Patton ...
A Car Dealer Shamed A Young Driver For Not Knowing What A Cassette Player Is. Josh Kurp Senior Pop Culture Editor Twitter. September 3, 2015.
Originally designed for voice recording, cassette recorders and players expanded into home and car stereo components and portable devices including Sony's Walkman, which was introduced in 1979 and ...
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 ...