8 TRACK TAPE PLAYERS MOVIE
The tapes were for the most part mini-albums featuring top-40 “bubblegum” pop, selections from movie soundtracks, and oldies. Playtape players were squarely aimed at the “teeny bopper” market – they made no claims to high fidelity, but did offer low cost. telephone answering machines in the 1970s. The Playtape cartridge was apparently introduced in the fall of 1966, and was used in slightly modified form as the medium in Dictaphone Corp.
8 TRACK TAPE PLAYERS PORTABLE
This was Playtape, a portable tape player using a tiny, two-track, endless loop cartridge. Only one endless-loop tape system saw any significant measure of commercial success, but it was a very different type of product than these others. It’s not clear whether the system was ever sold to the public, but a few players and tapes have survived they may represent demonstration models. This was the ill-fated “Orrtronics 8-Track”, a cartridge similar to the Learjet product except for the way the tape loop was routed inside the plastic cartridge. Champion funded the development at Orrtronics of a competing system. In the short period in 1965 before it became clear that the 8-track would be widely adopted throughout the auto industry, it looked like Champion could introduce a competing product that did not depend on Learjet’s patents. Meanwhile, Ford still was debating whether it would adopt the Learjet Stereo 8 system in 1965, and was looking to its Champion division for guidance. These Orrtronics Auto-Mate players and their “Tapette” cartridges (top of this page) and players sold in significant numbers for a few years in the mid-1960s. Orr and Cousino create a new firm, called Orrtronics, which was to manufacturer a home and automobile tape system based on the old Echo-matic cartridge. In the the early 1960s he had become aquainted with Alabama businessman John Herbert Orr, whose Orradio Industries tape manufacturing firm had recently been acquired by Ampex Corporation, and who was preparing to start a new firm under the name John Herbert Orr Enterprises. With the success of the 8-Track, Champion insisted that the company instead become a manufacturer of Stereo 8 players instead, and Cousino subsquently became a major supplier of players for Sears Roebuck.Ĭousino was involved in another significant tape venture as well. In 1965, the Champion Spark Plug company (a subsidiary of Ford) purchased a controlling interest in Cousino’s firm. He had a measure of success with his Echo-matic in the early 1960s as a “point of sale” advertising medium and background music technology. Bernard Cousino of Toledo, Ohio’s Cousino Electronics, for example, had designed an endless-loop tape cartridge that was marketed under the brand name Echo-matic. Meanwhile, a number of new contenders rose up to enjoy fleeting moments of glory selling similar, endless-loop tape systems. Cousino Electronics Echo-Matic tape cartridge
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