Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/10/01 11:34

In article <6qtmf.5755$Eu3.1617@fe07.lga>,
Derek Janssen <djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote:
>Justin wrote:
>
>>>But thats not quite true, stores still sell cassettes, both prerecorded
>>>(rare but out there) and blanks. CD sure pacified cassette but it didn't
>>>totally kill it. Now 8-track would be dead, can't buy prerecorded or blanks
>>>outside a garage sale, no ones makes them to my knowledge. Cassette is
>>>still made/sold by several manufactures including Memorex.
>
>And are still used for home recording, personal notes, answering
>machines, etc.
>Now, compare to:
>
>> 8 track didn't make the inroads tape did.

8 track killed off 4-track rather rapidly.

>8-track had the two classic fatal symptoms:

>A) It was pre-recorded media only (oh, sure, you could probably
>*get* a recorder, if you wanted to buy the hardware that nobody
>else was buying), and B) It was technically a mess. (Always used
>to have that bleed-through on the cheap players, with two tracks
>playing at once...)

>...It had exactly ONE application-use for the consumer, and didn't
>impress us at that. That's how neat-o technologies die.

You could get a recorder - and my son has a QUAD 8-track.

I think the idea of the 8-track recorder was so that you could
record your LPs to take along in the car with you.

Only the cassette seemed to answer that need properly.

Bill

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