In the late 1950s, Gates Radio sought to simplify operations by developing a control storage device using a wide audio tape ...

One of several that you might have found in a well-equipped home of that period was the 8-track stereo cartridge, a self-contained tape cassette format that fit four stereo tracks onto a single ...

The 8-track cartridge, aka the Stereo 8, first appeared at trade shows in 1964, just 18 months after the cassette, and it did initially seem to have it all: it was comparatively small, portable ...

The 8-track tape was a cartridge containing a ... eventually expanding it to a “Stereo 8” eight-track cartridge, which could provide up to 90 minutes of content. Ampex and RCA Victor showed ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was at an estate sale and I found a little stereo component ... means that the tape is seized up and isn’t moving. Much like blowing into an N64 cartridge, I have ...

With blank cassettes, listeners could record their favorite songs from the radio or from ... Mr. Ottens’s cassette tape was about half the width of RCA’s tape cartridge, which had been ...