Just like the dodo bird and full-service gas stations, here are a few things that are either extinct or fading away: Invented by William Powell Lear of LearJet fame, they gained notoriety in the 1960s ...

Official recreations of some much-loved analogue recording gear from the ‘70s and ‘80s When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Developed ...

National 8-Track Tape Day is observed on April 11 every year to celebrate the great music of the 60s and 70s that have been immortalized on 8-track tapes. Developed by William Powell Lear, a jet plane ...

The process of using a TAPE RECORDER for the storage of sound on MAGNETIC TAPE, or the information stored by this process. See also: EMULSION, ORAL HISTORY, MUSIQUE CONCRETE, STEREOPHONIC, TAPE MUSIC, ...

If any cassette ever belonged in an 8-track adapter, it's Led Zeppelin II. Here's where the magic happened. This device was pretty clever. There was a motor driving the cassette mechanism and a ...