Afficionados of vintage electric organs will know about the Melotron, an instrument from the 1960s that had pre-recorded ...

My first stop was to find an engineering drawing of the Compact Cassette format, designed by Phillips back in 1963. I could always measure the tapes in front of me, but for something like this ...

Interest in the 1980s and 1990s appears to be growing, as one staple of the period is seemingly making a comeback: the cassette tape. Artists like Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift seem to be ...