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Eight track tapes
The eight-track tape was the first and only widely-successful
consumer cartridge-tape format (and, arguable, the first truly
successful consumer tape format in general, certainly reaching more
listeners than open reel or the cassette had before it), in large part
because its simple operation and lineage in industrial and automobile
use made it the first portable music format fit for car players, home
recorders, and battery-powered carryables - the eight track tape, like
no format before, allowed for
History
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a history of the endless-loop tape
cartridge
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Cartridges
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tapes from different
bands, cartridge styles and disassembly
and repair techniques
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Machines |
players, recorders, and more
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Why I like 8 tracks
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the things I find
interesting about eight track tapes and other obsolete
endless loop tape
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Oddities
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odd players, cartridges, and
accessories
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Similar endless loop tapes
| Stereo four tracks and
Fidelipac |
a similar automotive-focused
consumer music format with four tracks instead of
eight, based on the industrial-use Fidelipac
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| PlayTape |
mid 1960s two-track
cartridge originally aimed at the general market and later
at children, also used for some commercial applications |
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Hipac |
Japanese four-track
system evolved from PlayTape
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