Just as AC beat DC, the audio cassette beat 8-track and VHS beat Betamax, Qwerty won the format war.

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SmartDisk's clever FlashPath devices that will let you use the memory cards in a 3.5-inch floppy drive, or, for music, an audio cassette player.

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Now eight audio cassette tapes from 1974, featuring the likes of Slade and the Bay City Rollers, have been found thanks to a fan who contacted the new TOTP2 website.

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Though mp3 players and audio cassette guides before them had been used for years, the iPods allow visual content to be shown, offering a new way to deliver in-depth educational content in a museum that has avoided flatscreen panels and even limited the number of explanatory text panels.

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An old tape cassette radio provides audio entertainment, mostly a strange marriage of white noise and American pop.

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