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Vinyl records were produced long before 8 track tapes were made.
He is asking about the 8 track tape player. The eight track came before the cassette which came before the CD player. 1970's technology.
it was the latest technology
8-track players lost popularity in the Seventies. Cassette tape players (especially "boom boxes") and vinyl record players were much more common in the Eighties.
Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" becomes the first eight-track recording to be pressed into a 45 RPM single.
PS1 came far after NES, but ps3 came 8 days before the wii
The first 8-track tapes came out in 1964 and gained popularity by 1967. They lasted until the late 1970's in the US.
8 track was the audio recording system before cassette tapes. They looked a bit like old school Nintendo cartridges
When I bought an 8-track player for my '79 Jeep CJ7, some of my friends made fun of me because they were all getting cassette players for their cars. Loved that Jeep. Loved that 8-track cranking out Jessi Coulter, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.It was the cassette tape that replaced the 8-track, and cassettes had a good long run until the CD took over.
When I bought an 8-track player for my '79 Jeep CJ7, some of my friends made fun of me because they were all getting cassette players for their cars. Loved that Jeep. Loved that 8-track cranking out Jessi Coulter, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.It was the cassette tape that replaced the 8-track, and cassettes had a good long run until the CD took over.
Cassette tape players didn't appear till much later, however 8 track tape players was offered in 1966 Thunderbirds.
The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962. They used high-quality polyester 1/8-inch tape produced by BASF. Recording and playback was at a speed of 1.7/8 inches per second. The next year in the U.S. sales began of the Norelco Carry-Corder dictation machine that used the new cassette tape. The consumer's demand for blank tape used for personal music-recording was unanticipated by Philips. History of Sound Recoding