ALBUMS IN
FORGOTTEN
FORMATS
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Inexpensive reel-to-reel tape recorders were widely used before the Philips "compact cassette", introduced in 1963, took over. Cassettes quickly displaced reel-to-reel recorders for consumer use.
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8-track cartridge was an analog music recording format popular from the late 1960s to the early 1980s
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Between the 1960s and early 2000s, the compact cassette was one of the four most common formats for prerecorded music.
[As an example this six track C cassette (UK 1983)]
MiniDisc was announced by Sony in 1991 and introduced in January 1992.
MiniDiscs were popular in Japan as a digital upgrade to cassette tapes,
but have not been as popular world-wide.
[Cohen's albums were released also in this format between 1994 and 2001]
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These items come from the collections of
Dominique Boile and Jarkko Arjatsalo
Texts from Wikipedia.
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