the Compact Cassette story

The story starts in August 1963, when Dutch electronics company Philips displayed a prototype of a small cartridge of magnetic tape designed to work in highly compact players that could be battery operated and taken anywhere. It was reversible, and

Sony TC-177SD

Sony’s breathtakingly expensive TC-177SD was a bold product for 1974. Described as, “the most sophisticated cassette deck ever developed”, it boasted something that not even Yamaha’s beautiful ’ski-slope’ TC-800GL had – three heads. This had previously been the sole province