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 ...

Hey all, I frequently run into older format items, such as 33s and 8 track tapes. My question is who made/makes the best 8 track tape players? I like to restore/preserve old (mainly classical, and ...

Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a distant galaxy…a Ford Galaxy, that is, I listened to music on an 8-track tape player. Back then we mounted them under the dashboard. That makes me old enough to ...

This month, Capt. Joseph A. Grace Jr., USN (Ret.) likens the state of government technology to that of an 8-track tape player in an iPod world, thanks to a bloated procurement process: In the early ...

Cassette tapes existed before cars adopted them, but automakers stuck with 8-tracks until one key improvement made cassette ...

Imagine a car company unveiling a product as revolutionary as the original iPod, and you'll have a sense of what Ford did on this date in 1965. For the previous decade, audio engineers had been ...

The electronics from the cassette adapter are simply placed inside an old 8-track tape, with holes cut in the chassis for the charge port and on switch. Then, all you need to do is pop the adapter ...

For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors, even strangers — ...