Popular Post snoop1130 Posted March 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2021 Dutch inventor of the cassette tape dies aged 94 By JOE PINKSTONE Mr Ottens died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family has announced. No cause of death was given Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who created the first cassette tape, has died aged 94. The engineer died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family has announced. No cause of death was given. Mr Ottens created the first cassette tape in 1963, and an estimated 100 billion have been sold around the world since. Full Story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9350017/Lou-Ottens-Dutch-inventor-created-iconic-cassette-tape-1963-dies-aged-94.html 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomazbodner Posted March 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2021 Thank you for mix tapes, walkman, music on the go,... Without him my childhood would not be the same. That said, I still have a bunch of sealed Metal tapes and 2 top end cassette decks. Ah, nostalgia... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asquith Production Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Thank you for the endless stream of tape that would come spewing out of my car radio/cassette player and end up streaming from my car window. RIP great invention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnacha Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Famously, until his final years, he would fly into a blind fury when anyone mentioned the word "iPod". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 He made a change to billions of people‘s listening pleasure, be it language courses, music or lectures - I was one of those who benefitted in all three. Thank you for your invention, it made a positive impact in my life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidedude Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 hour ago, donnacha said: Famously, until his final years, he would fly into a blind fury when anyone mentioned the word "iPod". One for G Larson if it hasn't been done yet ha ha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi49jr Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I am a child of the 70’s and 80’s and the cassette tape has been enormously important to me; to be able to record your favorite music from the radio, or to buy tapes and play them on your walkman when and wherever you wanted. I remember driving through the Sahara in 1987 in an old Peugeot 504 ‘Familiale’, and in the end, because of all the sand and dust, we had just one tape left that still worked and that we played over and over again for days. That tape was ‘Graceland’ (the album) by Paul Simon and to this day that is still very powerful music to me. So thank you so much, Mr. Lou Ottens, for inventing the cassette tape and making my life as a teenager and a young man so much more enjoyable. RIP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubulat Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 In a Dutch newspaper he said he was sorry that Sony released the Walkman before Phillips. But it is a widespread misunderstand it was Sony. During 1974 I worked as a technician at the Marantz importer. At the time we also represented Standard Company from Japan, and they bring already a walkman, I owned one by myself. Later Standard were taken over by Marantz, before that time they also bring Superscope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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