Tech Legacy - Cassette Tapes (Part 9)
The compact cassette found its first use as a transcription method but its users quickly realized that they could use it to record music and make “mix tapes”.
The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Released by Philips in 1963, it has been developed in Hasselt, Belgium.[2] Compact cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette, or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms are reversible by the user.[3]
The fact that we were able as a species to record sound and audio in a compact format such as a cassette gave way to dreamers thinking of even smaller and more inventive ways to do the same thing...
To think that the mini-ipod shuffle is just a reinvention of the cassette tape albeit in a much more robust form offering hundreds of hours of playback and functionality and all this came from standing on the shoulders of giants!
The world is directed by dreamers that act upon their dreams and make them reality. Don't be afraid to set a goal and go after it!
Source:
Wikipedia
Still a box of these cassetes here in my garage. Anyone wants em FOC ?
That last one is very true. If it weren’t for dreamers who act on their dreams progress and development would cease.
I still remember well.
As you say, the cool thing was to record music and create - for the first time - personalized music. Innocent times back then...
Thank you for bringing the cassette to our remembrance. I still prefer the i pod