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The inventor of the cassette tape has died
Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away.
40 years later, Sony finally kills Betamax
Betamax: the punchline for over a decades-worth of VHS-center comedy bits and most format wars. However, Sony's Beta cassettes can still be bought in Japan. Just about. Sony's announced that it's finally, finally, finally going to stop selling the cassettes. No need to rush to Tokyo just yet, as you still have until next March to buy-up all the Betamax supplies you'll never need -- including a cleaning tape. It's also dropping its MicroMV camcorder tapes In a bid to... make space in the warehouse, we guess. Image credit: SSPL via Getty Images
Apple's state-of-the-art, ground-breaking, game-changing... cassettes?
It's hard to believe, what with modern Macs abandoning even SuperDrives en masse, but way, way back in the late 1970s, programs on the original Apple II came on these. My, how far we've come. [Photo credit: Jim Abeles]
iPod cassette holder
Make has the perfect use for all those old cassette holders you have cluttering up the place. Though this still doesn't help me get rid of all my Betamax tapes.
