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Dutch inventor of the audio cassette tape dies aged 94
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Posted on 03/10/2021 7:29:37 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report.

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1 posted on 03/10/2021 7:29:37 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Not much better than the dreaded 8 track tape.


2 posted on 03/10/2021 7:30:29 PM PST by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: NWFree

I don’t really miss them.


3 posted on 03/10/2021 7:32:54 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: NWFree
ever tried jogging wi an 8track???
4 posted on 03/10/2021 7:37:34 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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To: Chode; NWFree

The 8 trac was pretty neat when it came out.


5 posted on 03/10/2021 7:42:48 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I’ll take a CD over vinyl,tape or digital.


6 posted on 03/10/2021 7:43:14 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Ah, the cassette tape.

I listened to an audio book of Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative , (three volumes), on cassette tape, while driving a big rig. Considering they were a library copy and the cassette player was a el+cheapo, they performed surprisingly well.

7 posted on 03/10/2021 7:43:43 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

When I was a boy, a local radio station used to play uninterrupted albums late at night. Perfect for cassette recording. A cheap way to get music.


8 posted on 03/10/2021 7:47:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
"pretty neat when it came out"

"Clunk!"

Yea, that was pretty neat in the middle of a song.

9 posted on 03/10/2021 7:47:44 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I had LPS that I bought on 8 trac and then had to buy on cassette and finally on CD. I like digital.


10 posted on 03/10/2021 7:47:59 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: csvset
Ah, the cassette tape

My Dad and I would exchange cassette tape voice 'letters' when I was in Vietnam, '70-'71, still have them somewhere.

11 posted on 03/10/2021 7:48:14 PM PST by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
The cassette tape was what helped to free Eastern Europe from the grip of Communism.

People taped the speeches of Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and passed around those cassette tapes.

Thank you Mr. Ottens.

12 posted on 03/10/2021 7:49:16 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Deaf Smith

The phonograph I had kept skipping every time I hit a bump in my pickup. 😀


13 posted on 03/10/2021 7:50:22 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: NWFree

Fortunately I skipped the ridiculous 8-track and went straight to cassette. I loved it when the tape started winding around the capstan and you frantically ran for the machine to stop the self-destruction and see if you could salvage the tape.

What an abomination these things were.

I had a Sony TC-640 reel-to-reel tape recorder before the cassette and it was wonderful in the home stereo system. It had an absolutely bullet-proof tape transport. But to make a mix back then was such a huge pain in the next — queueing up your songs on the albums, starting the tape at the right instant, repeating that process all in real time. Ugh.

I thought CDs were an absolute Godsend with superb sound quality and instant changing to any song. Then MP3 — wow.

For a good 15 to 20 years I ripped my entire CD collection to MP3, then continued buying used CDs and borrowing them from the public library to build up my home digital library. It wasn’t that long ago I finally settled on Spotify and use it almost exclusively now. My hearing is declining in my late 60s now, so Spotify sound quality is all I need. No interest in Tidal.


14 posted on 03/10/2021 7:51:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Natural causes or death by muslim

Its the netherlands after all


15 posted on 03/10/2021 7:54:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

“The phonograph I had kept skipping every time I hit a bump in my pickup.”

https://www.cnet.com/news/chryslers-in-car-phonograph/


16 posted on 03/10/2021 7:55:48 PM PST by PLMerite
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To: NWFree

That’s not true! Unless you can tell me why a cassette wouldn’t play the other side in reverse when you flipped it over, you have no standing in this somewhat tech geek forum sir!


17 posted on 03/10/2021 7:57:42 PM PST by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: Deaf Smith

I can still remember where the breaks were when listening to regular versions today.


18 posted on 03/10/2021 7:58:53 PM PST by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: PLMerite

I was joking when I posted that, but yeah.


19 posted on 03/10/2021 7:58:55 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

RIP

Doctors tried to save him with a number 2 pencil and some scotch tape but he was beyond repair.


20 posted on 03/10/2021 7:59:01 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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