From Madonna to Nas to The Smashing Pumpkins, valuable cassettes from the '80s and '90s span genres, and one elusive tape is ...

The Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette has died. Lou Ottens was 94. As head of product development for Philips in 1960, he led a team that developed the initial portable tape ...

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. According to Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, Ottens was 94 when he died on March 6th.

Some old cassette tapes are now valuable collectibles. Discover 13 tapes that can be worth a small fortune and turn a hobby ...

Ottens, a former Philips engineer initially began working on the cassette tape in the early '60s. Years later it became a global phenomenon. During his career, he also played a significant role in the ...

Mix-tapes, fast-forwarding, cassingles, high-speed dubbing, tape-flipping, rewinding and recording were all a part of our lives in the cassette era. The tape, known in the music business as the ...

Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape, has died at age 94. NPR reports: Lou Ottens, who put music-lovers around the world on a path toward playlists and mixtapes by leading the invention of the ...

The inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, has passed away, according to De Telegraaf. He was 94 years old. Ottens started working at Philips in 1952, where he eventually came up with the idea of ...

There's been an unexpected spike in demand for cassettes, and tapes from popular '90s artists, from Pearl Jam to Wu-Tang Clan, are spiking in value with it.