Of course, if you’re driving a classic antique auto with a tape technology even older than the compact cassette, there are still a few Bluetooth-enabled options for you as well.

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.

My first stop was to find an engineering drawing of the Compact Cassette format, designed by Phillips back in 1963. I could always measure the tapes in front of me, but for something like this ...

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 portable, the tape was recordable ...

the engineering whiz at the Dutch electronics company Philips (he developed the compact cassette tape), and Norio Ogha, his counterpart and future president at the Japanese conglomerate Sony (he ...