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Hi.
Saw yesterday on an old television program, a short-lived audio tape recorder format NOT open reel-to-reel, NOT '8-track' type of recorder and tape cartridge, before the 'compact cassette' by Philips. Was not a wire reel either.
May have been a Hollywood trick of the era, but I do faintly remember seeing such before.

Does it have a name ? Was it just 'cassette' without the 'compact' ? Just curious.
 

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Google lists Wikipedia and others with history of the compact tape cassette and the competitors Telefunken and Grundig. I think there was also a Japanese one or two. Philips won.
I worked in a Philips car radio factory when they developed their tape cassette player that replaced an 8-track tape player and their cassette soon became a hifi recorder/player. In the factory I also saw my first LED. The factory also made simple audio items and color TVs and I bought my first one that I souped up over many years.
 

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Thanks.
Took some effort but captured images, at time stamp ~33:28 on
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Shows an indentation for pinch roller ?
 
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The first computer I worked with used punched cards for the program and tiny ferrite cores on a matrix of wires for RAM.
Its logic ICs were RTL and DTL. I think it was in 1968.
 
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