The 8-track is named for its quarter-inch tape that holds eight parallel tracks of sound. Just like in a cassette, a felt pressure-pad pushes the tape against a playback head in the deck.

Cassette tapes replaced 8-track by around 1980. They could run up to 45 minutes in one shot, and you could rewind them if you liked the song, unlike the 8-tracks, ...

The 8-track tape audio format, which was invented by the guy who designed the Lear Jet, is a newer format than the familiar Compact Cassette, but we have come to associate the 8-track tape with ...

“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 ...

8-track media was a cartridge, not a cassette. We certainly did have them here in Oz and the cartridges used to pop up at Salvos, op shops, swap meets that sort of thing but I haven’t seen one ...

Bomb technicians converged around the Sacramento County, California, Sheriff’s Department on Friday for what turned out to be an 8-track tape.

Sync isn't Ford's only pioneering automotive entertainment technology. On this day in 1965, Ford first offered factory-installed 8-track tape players with tapes initially only available in auto ...

Cassette tapes are now seen as a quaint anachronism from an era gone by, but what about the history that didn't happen? What about, specifically, the 8-track-playing Sony Walkman?

Just like the dodo bird and full-service gas stations, here are a few things that are either extinct or fading away: 8-track tapes| Invented by William Powell Lear of LearJet fame, they gained ...

He is a walking 8-track encyclopedia. The last 8-track was produced in 1985. It was replaced by the cassette tape, which was replaced by the CD, which is in short demand because of downloadable files.

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Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in ...