My first car was a silver 1990 Buick Park Avenue handed down from my grandmother, and like all early '90s cars, it came equipped with a tape deck. It always had a cassette loaded. Most were homemade: ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...

Cassette tapes reached their peak from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, with an estimated 500 million cassette tapes sold in Japan alone in 1989. However, with the advent of CDs and the spread of ...

A "unique" city centre property that once only sold blank cassette tapes and other media has been bought. Roll On Blank Tapes, in Gwydir Street, Cambridge, was sold for £184,000 - £59,000 more than ...

Some people say I cling too much to the past, but recently I abandoned my broken video at an electrical recycling centre, and if that’s not proof of being able to move on, I don’t know what is. When I ...

Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, and I got mine a year later. The Walkman boosted the profile of audio cassettes, which had been challenging LPs and 8-Tracks as a music medium. They soon dominated ...