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.

Philips showcased its latest cassette players through its local branch, which had been nationalised by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1961 but kept Philips in its name.

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.

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 ...

Philips’ invention of a compact recording cassette in 1962 provided a convenient medium for music distribution. Credit Line from Sony Corporation of America date made ca 1980 ID Number 1987.0127.01 ...

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 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, 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 ...