Before [Woz] created the elegant Disk II interface for the Apple II, and before Commodore brute-forced the creation of the C64 5 1/4″ drive, just about every home computer used cassette tapes for ...

According to today’s New York Times, "Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes," the cassette tape is dead. Though long anticipated, the end came quickly. The cassette is survived by the CD ...

36-year-old music, video, and game store chain Bull Moose revealed on a Facebook post that it will close its North Windham, ...

For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors, even strangers — ...

A song I hadn’t heard in a long time played on my car radio the other day, and I realized just how long it had been since I’d heard it because my ears went out of synch for a moment when the song didn ...

Last year, Nathan Brown, founder of Dead Media Tapes, was cooped up in his Fort Worth home with two friends, producing 1,000 copies of a new release on eight-track cassette for a band in Sweden – one ...

This video is no longer available. For a generation that’s grown up with streaming music, the act of holding a physical recording is something a lot of young music fans have never experienced. My ...

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 parts ...

“Music today has become wallpaper,” says Trevor Jackson, a hyphenate resident of the graphic design and electronic music worlds. He’s got a point: thanks to Spotify, Pandora, Songza, Rdio, Beats, ...

The electronics from the cassette adapter are simply placed inside an old 8-track tape, with holes cut in the chassis for the charge port and on switch. Then, all you need to do is pop the adapter ...

Four years ago, cassette tapes were headed toward their funeral. In 2007, British tabloid The Sun declared the death of the cassette, after the announcement that a major electronics retailer in the ...