Compact Cassette

Compact Cassette

A TDK D-C60 cassette, a common speech-quality tape wi a 60-minute playin time, in a hoosin seemilar tae that o the oreeginal Philips' Compact Cassette specification
Media teep	Magnetic tape
Encodin	Analog signal
Capacity	Teepically 30 or 45 minutes o audio per side (C60 an C90 formats respectively), 120 minutes an aa available
Read mechanism	Tape heid
Write mechanism	Magnetic recordin heid
Developed bi	Philips
Uisage	Audio an data storage

The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), an aa commonly cried cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is a magnetic tape recordin format for audio recordin an playback released bi Philips in 1962.