Cassette Tapes

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. Although designed originally for dictation, improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications. Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers. Between the early 1970s and the late 1990s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP and later the Compact Disc.

12 Comments to Cassette Tapes

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   Omg! I remember hours of sitting by the radio recording my favorite songs onto cassette tape! Oh the memories!
Mary on April 18th, 2011
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   I don’t know how many songs I had recorded onto my cassette tapes!! I even had 120 minute cassette tapes….that reminds me…I still have my cassette walkman around here somewhere!!
rtm27 on April 19th, 2011
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   Ahhh…back in the day when making a playlist was called making a mixed tape.Now that took some skill.
MrSkinner on April 19th, 2011
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   I have a couple of empty beer boxes in my attic CRAMMED with tapes AND a Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck, I wonder how they would sound now, hmmmmmmm…….
heywood jablomie on April 19th, 2011
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   haha Oh man I still have some casette tapes because I can’t find CDs of them. And don’t even get me started on the VHS’s…
Kendall on April 25th, 2011
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   I still have some of those memorex tapes just like that one, they are mix tapes i made back in the 90′s
T.C on May 7th, 2011
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   I remember playing Dungeons & Dragons listening to our cassettes and wishing for some songs we had a skip button.
CaMahjonggMom on May 12th, 2011
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   I used to have about 100 albums on tape I had bought. Some of them I can’t find CDs for. Anyone else remember the 50 lb “boom boxes” some guys (that would now be called “douches”) would carry around on thier shoulder? Those were the days…
Bob on May 13th, 2011
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   I was sad to hear Sony is no longer making the Walkman. The last one I bought is held together with tape, and the stereos I have are starting to eat my tapes.
Mel on May 16th, 2011
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    @ Kendall: Same here. I had vhs I wish I had been able to transfer to dvd when we had a dvd recorder.

    Too bad the (obscure) music we used to have on cassette isn’t available on cd without costing a fortune on ebay. I saw a soundtrack listed for $59.
Eric on June 5th, 2011
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    Ah yes, the days when you could “steal” music & not fear being found and charged thousands of dollars in fines.
Dawnieangel76 on August 16th, 2011
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    I have thousands of tapes. I’m currently (slowly) digitizing all of them. The Pioneer 6-cassette changer is a blessing for this process.
Josh Marihugh on September 16th, 2011

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