Call me an old fart, but I remember 8-track tapes being promoted into the late-1980s, just when record stores were beginning to cut back on their LP selections, to stock more CDs. The classic line for some country music compilation being promoted on a commercial aired on an independent UHF televison channel …
“Available on LP, cassette, and eight-track!”
You know … I haven’t seen pre-recorded music cassettes in record stores in a few years.
Call me an old fart again, but I remember Elcasets, and the use of Hi-Fi VHS VCRs as high-end audio recorders.
I have a 15 year old SAE cassette deck that can that, when I copy a CD, can produce a tape that is practically indistinguishable from the original. Dahlquist speakers and NAD amp, too. If it wasn’t for the mechanic bugs, difficulty of recording long tracks, and interruptions from tape looping, I’d imagine there would be folks cutting audiophile-quality 8-tracks into the 1990s, at least.