In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service We present the first of our Lost & Found Sound Memphis trilogy with ... Sam Phillips, a young man with a tape recorder, lived by the motto, "We Record ...

In 1960, Ottens and his team developed the first portable tape recorder. At the time, all recorders used the reel-to-reel system, which meant the tape had to be manually wound.

During my career as a freelance radio reporter and foreign correspondent, I started using simple Philips tape cassette recorders. Of course, Philips in my native country, the Netherlands, had invented ...

Speech Processing Solutions' latest edition in the Philips Pocket Memo line, the company’s leading family of professional handheld dictation recorders. The redesigned device comes equipped with ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, ... He unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963.

After its development, Philips’ audio cassette made its debut at electronics fairs in August 1963. ... “The cassette tape was invented out of irritation about the existing tape recorder, ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at the age of 94, his family has confirmed to CNN. They said the inventor died at his home in Duizel, the Netherlands, on Saturday ...