Forgotten audio formats: Elcaset
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Forgotten Formats: The Elcaset – Preservation Sound
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Elcaset
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Elcaset (1976 - 1980) Museum of Obsolete Media
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Flops: Fourteen Formats and Technologies That Couldn't Quite Hang On Page 2
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Pin by Lucas Posan on Som Audio sound, Hifi, Tape recorder
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The Quiet Failure of Sony's Giant Cassette Tape - Atlas Obscura
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Weirdest Audio Formats Ultimate Guitar
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Sunday Hi-Fi illustration again, with a machine that for a time represented a failed audio format: the Sony EL-5 Elcaset player! This form of compact cassette was probably the best version of it due to the reel tape inside which gave a better audio quality, but
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Formats Past and Present - Reference Audio
Cassette tape, Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki
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Retro Thing: The Vintage Knob