In this Hack Chat, he’ll be discussing the history of the Digital Compact Cassette, the behind the scenes on how stereo PCM is recorded to tape, and other topics like the difference between CS ...

My first stop was to find an engineering drawing of the Compact Cassette format, designed by Phillips back in 1963. I could always measure the tapes in front of me, but for something like this ...

In the spring of 1968, the year that I turned 24, Philips held an announcement to unveil the compact cassette tape. Back then popular audiotapes consisted of the 8-track cartridge and 4-track ...

the "Compact Cassette" offered an alternative to the much larger vinyl record player as well as the 8-track cartridge. Not only was the drive battery-operated and portable, the tape was recordable ...