Along with launching various radios, Philips has many audio firsts to its name – it launched the first personal cassette player (EL3300) in 1963 and developed the compact disc (CD) with Sony in ...

While not as svelte as MP3 players became, why are those early 2000s machines smaller than all the new models popping up amidst the retro audio ... newer cassette and CD players aren’t as ...