There’s something about this format that simply refuses to die. The fans just won’t let Compact Cassette go down without a fight. Video after the break.

This reduction in thickness allowed C90 cassettes to hold around 426 feet (130 meters) of tape within the same compact cassette housing, thus accommodating the extended playback duration.

Introduced by Philips in 1965, the "Compact Cassette" offered an alternative to the much larger vinyl record player as well as the 8-track cartridge. Not only was the drive battery-operated and ...

Note the metal split jump ring to mount connect the bead chain, and the screw-on caps to hold the adapter to the cassette. My first stop was to find an engineering drawing of the Compact Cassette ...

In recent decades, experimental musicians realized that by tweaking the innards of regular compact cassettes, you could create an infinite loop within the cassette shell itself. However ...