Before [Woz] created the elegant Disk II interface for the Apple II, and before Commodore brute-forced the creation of the C64 5 1/4″ drive, just about every home computer used cassette tapes for ...

Just like the dodo bird and full-service gas stations, here are a few things that are either extinct or fading away: Invented by William Powell Lear of LearJet fame, they gained notoriety in the 1960s ...

National 8-Track Tape Day is observed on April 11 every year to celebrate the great music of the 60s and 70s that have been immortalized on 8-track tapes. Developed by William Powell Lear, a jet plane ...

The mini-revival of the cassette tape may just be another kitschy millennial obsession—but the obsession is important, all the same On Oct. 5, 1969, just beyond the classifieds, section 13 of the New ...

The high-tech 80s cassette tape has had its 50th birthday. I can remember growing up my dad had an old car that had an eight-track tape player. I have vivid memories of him getting angry every time I ...

For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors, even strangers — ...

A song I hadn’t heard in a long time played on my car radio the other day, and I realized just how long it had been since I’d heard it because my ears went out of synch for a moment when the song didn ...

Marc Sendik has seen many a music format rise and fall and rise again: the vinyl album, the compact disc, even the humble cassette. But the 8-track cartridge? When Sendik, who owns High Fidelity ...

“I must have made my mom buy it for me,” Rosenbaum explained. “I actually still have it, and it’s a beautiful sounding record. I think around that time I probably said, ‘I want real guitar lessons.’ ...

The electronics from the cassette adapter are simply placed inside an old 8-track tape, with holes cut in the chassis for the charge port and on switch. Then, all you need to do is pop the adapter ...