Classics of the Phonograph

The Poor Audio Casette, It Gets No Respect!

 
A Compact Cassette and a Microcassette

A Compact Cassette and a Microcassette CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=256830

The audio cassette made history. From the 1960s on it rose from a humble dictation machine to a high fidelity medium. It helped to do in the LP and it was in turn done in by the CD. For a couple of decades, record companies issued practically everything on cassettes. Yet, in some areas they were ignored.

On Saturday at 11 am on WILL-FM, we will give the ingenious little thing some respect.