• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.

    Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.

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      3 months ago

      Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.

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      3 months ago

      Uhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.

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        3 months ago

        I’m mean you had reel to reel. Which was a tape right, just not a cassette?

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      3 months ago

      Philips started with cassettapes in  my country  Belgium in 63 , betamax and vhs where for video.
      8 mm camera and movies were also available