Cassette tapes existed before cars adopted them, but automakers stuck with 8-tracks until one key improvement made cassette ...

An earlier magnetic tape cartridge technology introduced by Lear Jet in 1964 as Stereo 8, although widely known by its 8-track moniker. Stereo 8 was an 8-track version of the 4-track Muntz Autostereo, ...

Before [Woz] created the elegant Disk II interface for the Apple II, and before Commodore brute-forced the creation of the C64 5 1/4″ drive, just about every home computer used cassette tapes for ...

Q: I have a box full of 8-track tapes. Do they still make and sell 8-track players? If so, what would be your recommendation, and where can someone purchase one? A: Believe it or not, yours is the ...

I never owned an 8-Track tape, but I remember clearly listening to them — a fact that sets me squarely in the midst of Generation X. Dad’s truck had an 8-Track player, and when it wasn’t jammed all to ...

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The electronics from the cassette adapter are simply placed inside an old 8-track tape, with holes cut in the chassis for the charge port and on switch. Then, all you need to do is pop the adapter ...

A song I hadn’t heard in a long time played on my car radio the other day, and I realized just how long it had been since I’d heard it because my ears went out of synch for a moment when the song didn ...

Call it the kitsch of death. When you think back, the 8-track tape was the music equivalent of the middle finger. It was a punk. It was skateboarding on the sidewalk, shoplifting at Woolworth’s stupid ...