 Audiocassette |
1963. The Phillips Company made a breakthrough in aural history: the audiocassette, a magnetic reel of tape that can be used to record and playback sound in a light, easy-to-operate and durable plastic format. This not only allowed for music on the move (as amptly demostrated by the Walkman, which most of us have moved away from by now!), but also solved many of the company's problems in the old reel-to-reel system. For instance, the user now didn't have to thread the tapes though a huge bulky equipment with lots of care lest the fragile tape break; now, all he had to do was slot in the plastic casing and the machine did its job. |
However, it didn't just stop there. The audiocassette was only the first in a series of inventions that would soon rock both the music and the information world. Not only could anyone record information on-to the tape, they could also make duplicate copies of the same thing at a relatively low cost price (as compared to the tapes of old). This meant that information | |