Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

DAT was supposed to replace cassettes, but it became the backbone of 1990s server backups instead ...

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Three cassette tapes featuring candid audio of The Beatles members mostly recorded in 1966, likely on a tape recorder owned by Ringo Starr, are being auctioned off together. The cassettes, which ...