Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, passed away

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Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, passed away: 'We were like little boys who were playing fun'

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In the 1960s, Lou Ottens, then head of product development at the Belgian Hasselt branch of the Eindhoven company Philips, developed the cassette tape. In previous years, Ottens was annoyed with green and yellow tape recorders with the large reels and felt that something more user-friendly and especially something smaller should be replaced.

Ottens? invention was a great success worldwide. More than 100 billion cassettes have been sold since its launch in 1963. But the bands disappeared after the release of the CD, which was developed twenty years later by the same Ottens together with a team of engineers. The CD also became a hit.In the 1960s, Lou Ottens, then head of product development at the Belgian Hasselt branch of the Eindhoven company Philips, developed the cassette tape. In previous years, Ottens was annoyed with green and yellow tape recorders with the large reels and felt that something more user-friendly and especially something smaller should be replaced.

Ottens? invention was a great success worldwide. More than 100 billion cassettes have been sold since its launch in 1963. But the bands disappeared after the release of the CD, which was developed twenty years later by the same Ottens together with a team of engineers. The CD also became a hit.


https://freethoughtblogs.com/intransitive/2021/03/09/the-tape-stopped-lou-ottens-june-21-1926-to-march-9-2021/

Some articles in the Dutch press:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/lou-ottens-1926-2021-was-de-uitvinder-van-het-cassettebandje-maar-vond-de-cd-beter~bc9c01b0/

https://www.ed.nl/eindhoven/lou-ottens-philips-uitvinder-cassettebandje-overleden-we-waren-als-kleine-jongens-die-leuk-aan-het-spelen-waren~af8a81cd/?



Mods - I've also posted a one-liner in the R.I.P. thread, but thought this is worthy of a post/thread on it's own
 
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