![]() ![]() Its uses have ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers the Compact Cassette technology was originally designed for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led to it supplanting the stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional audio applications by the mid-1970s. Although other tape cassette formats have also existed-for example the Microcassette-the generic term cassette tape is normally used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. ![]() Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips and released in August 1963, Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either containing content as a prerecorded cassette ( Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Most commonly 30, 45, and 60 minutes per side (C60, C90, and C120) Īugust 1963 60 years ago ( August 1963) ![]()
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