The introduction of the audio cassette in the '70s served as the next big disruption in the audio industry. "If you had a tape player, it was almost certainly also a tape recorder," said Feaster.

Apollo astronauts’ carried a small, battery-powered cassette voice recorder with them in the Command Module during lunar missions. The recorder was used to record information relevant to the crew log.

I mean, just look at cassette tape recorders from both Germanies of the time. They were quite heavy and bulky, still and had DIN connectors for microphone and loudspeakers ‐ rather than RCA/Cinch.

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