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.

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Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. Just when cassette tapes appeared to be making a comeback, a worldwide shortage of gamma ...

Lou Ottens, who invented the compact cassette tape and had a hand in the development of the CD while working for Netherlands-based electronics company Philips, has died at the age of 94. The website ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who gave the world the very first compact cassette tape, has died. Taylor spoke about the importance of cassette tapes to music stating, “Cassettes taught us how to use ...

If you’re a 40-something music fan or older, the likelihood is high that during a lengthy phase in your life, the primary medium for music playback/storage was the compact cassette tape. Mine ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died. He was 94. Amsterdam-based news outlet NRC Handelsblad confirmed the news but ...

Historians can argue the exact date of the compact cassette tape's birth, but as far as Philips is concerned, it was on this day in 1963 when the company first launched the format at its headquarters ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the Netherlands.

The audio cassette was the first music format that truly championed portability. It was robust, compact, and let people take music on the go to soundtrack their very lives. It was later supplanted by ...