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As Compact Cassettes are a standard design, the adapter can be used with most any cassette you appreciate. I myself have a penchant for the brightest and most colorful designs.
Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the ...
Lou Ottens unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963. Billions of cassettes were sold before he spearheaded a team that introduced the compact disc with ...
Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, both for Philips, has died at 94.
Philips introduced the Compact Cassette as it was originally called, in August, 1963 in Europe, and it took awhile to really take off, but the cassette eventually became the most successful audio ...
Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands village of Duizel this month. He was 94.
It’s with sadness that we note the passing at the age of 94 of the long-time Phillips engineer Lou Ottens, who is best known as the originator of the Compact Cassette audio tape format that w… ...
Lou Ottens, who put music-lovers around the world on a path toward playlists and mixtapes by leading the invention of the first cassette tape, has died at age 94, according to media reports in the ...
Then, in 1963, the Philips compact cassette became the worldwide standard for portable tape. At first it was meant just for voice recording.
The compact cassette mix tape of old has been given a modern update by MakerBot Industries with a DIY home 3D print kit that snaps together to make a wonderfully retro tape-shaped Mixtape MP3 player.
Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, the man who had the idea for audio cassette tape, has died at age 94.