MiniDisc combined the digital benefits of a CD with mix tape abilities of a cassette in a durable pocket-friendly package.

It evolved into a portable CD player by the end of the decade. See Walkman. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of the first personal computers allowed audio cassette recorders to function as ...

We’ve bemoaned the end of the electromechanical era before, and the Verge recently interviewed the people at We Are Rewind and Filo to get the skinny on just why these newer cassette and CD ...