Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

To achieve this, each C60 cassette housed approximately 281.25 feet (85.73 meters) of magnetic tape, which measured 1/8 inch (3.81 mm) wide and 16 µm (0.0006 inches or 0.0159 mm) thick.

[Julian Skidmore] has been busy improving the Fignition, a tiny AVR-powered educational computer, to support loading programs from a cassette ... tape (or any audio recorder) , and even a graphic ...

Not only was the drive battery-operated and portable, the tape was recordable, and the format became the standard among teenagers for taping concerts. As soon as commercial recordings on cassette ...