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 ...

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

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 ...

The cart and those machines started my career in radio technology over 50 years ago ... Criss Onan’s terrific article on the history of the broadcast audio tape cartridge machine. What a fascinating ...

A song I hadn’t heard in a long time played on my car radio the other day ... Well, I’m talking about when 8-track tape cartridges ruled our lives, and when listening to music could be ...