Joined: 12 Feb 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 113,740 Location: the island of defective toy santas
26 Nov 2023, 1:24 pm
8 track done well had at least the potential [due to doubled tape speed] to sound better than cassettes ever could. but it had terminal design flaws that led to premature tape wear/overheating. by the time a clever inventor fixed those flaws, people forgot about 8 track in favor of cassettes.