There was a motor driving the cassette mechanism and a playback head to take an audio signal from the cassette, plus enough hardware to convince the 8-track player that it was ingesting a legit 8 ...

Thus if you owned an 8-track player it was most likely to have been found in your car, but it was not uncommon to find them also incorporated into home hi-fi systems. Thus we come to our subject ...

Q: I have a box full of 8-track tapes. Do they still make and sell 8-track players? If so, what would be your recommendation, and where can someone purchase one? A: Believe it or not, yours is the ...

Today — when you can literally take your music anywhere — it's hard to imagine a time when that wasn't possible. So, if you're old enough, cast your mind back 40 years or so. Remember 8-track ...

What exactly was the 8-Track tape? Gather round youngsters! As the old(er) staffer at Loudwire, when we recently saw National 8-Track Tape Day coming up on the calendar, it sparked some moments of ...

"Good Times" star Jimmie Walker in an ad for portable 8-track players. Credit: Getty Images/Hulton Archive (Dy-no-mite! Watch that Jimmie Walker commercial here) The 8-track is named for its ...