Video cassette storage came in all sorts of configurations during the 1980s and 1990s, from wall-mounted shelving to compact drawers. These drawer units were usually made of a combination of ...

On a mid-January morning in Springfield, Mo., a tractor-trailer backs up to the National Audio Company’s loading dock and unloads more than 600,000 empty compact cassette shells from factories ...

At the International Radio Exhibition in 1963 in Berlin, it was declared a marvel of sound technology. From dictating texts to making music mix tapes, the Compact Cassette was everywhere. A look back.

The inventor of cassette tapes — who spawned the creation of countless mix tapes — has died at age 94, his family tells WTOP.

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 ...

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… ...

In 1968, just a few years after the compact cassette was invented by Dutch engineer Lou Ottens of the Philips Company, Steve Stepp and his father, Warren Stepp, a retired minister, ...

Compact cassette ushered in the democratisation of music and sparked the arrival of the mix-tape. Alice Hutton. Thursday 11 March 2021 08:52 GMT. Comments. Close. Your support helps us to tell the ...

The rise of the compact disc and other threats. Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer, also oversaw the division at Philips company that developed the compact disc. And as this new format caught on the ...