Remember when portable CD and cassette players seemed to be getting smaller with each iteration? Here's why this stopped ...

By the late 1990s, personal computer tape backup was largely abandoned due to CD-ROMs and the Internet. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Q: I have two cassette tapes that have become unattached from the spooling. Is there anywhere I might have them repaired, and would that establishment be able to copy them to CD format?

Extending tape length further ... they were specifically designed to record the 74-minute duration of a standard audio CD, allowing for seamless CD-to-cassette transfers. This format gained ...

Billions of cassette tapes have been sold around the world since ... In 1982, when Philips showed off a production CD player, Ottens said: "From now on, the conventional record player is obsolete".

Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probably used cassette tapes to store programs and data if you used pretty much any home computer in the 1980s.