Like vinyl records, cassette tapes are making a comeback in the 2020s, but how long can you expect them to last and keep ...

When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio cassette ...

In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

The typical C60 cassette, widely popular in the audio cassette era, provided 30 minutes of playback per side at the standard playback speed of 1.875 inches per second (4.76 cm/s). To achieve this, ...

Piers Hemmingsen owns two high-quality audio tapes of one of the Fab Four's Toronto concerts. So who will buy, for how much — and will the public ever get to hear it? By Karen Bliss The owner of two ...