He later visited a store selling cassette players since he wanted to listen to the content on the tapes he had purchased. He ended up buying the Sony TCM-47, a mini mono (monophonic) cassette player ...

Sony originally called their portable cassette player the Roundabout in the United States and the ... The cassette could be inserted the other way around since the tape heads were mounted in the lid, ...

But those tapes, which have spent years languishing in a dusty crawlspace, may have a second lease on life. Cassettes are on the comeback trail, as evidenced by the number of new portable players ...

We aren’t sure what possessed [Igor] to want to make a tape deck, and — to be fair — it looks like he borrowed the transport mechanism from a commercial player. But we never really need an ...

Cassette players and tapes are fertile hacking ground. One reason is that their electromechanical and analog nature provides easy ways to fiddle with their operation. For example, slow down the ...