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Father of the cassette tape dies at 94 Lou was an extraordinary man who loved technology SAMAA | AFP - Posted: Mar 14, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | AFP Posted: Mar 14, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago
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Tributes rolled in Friday after Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, credited with inventing the audio cassette tape and helping create the compact disc, died at the age of 94.
Created by Ottens while working for electrical giant Philips, cassettes made music truly portable for the first time and allowed a generation of music fans to make mix-tapes of their favourite songs.
Versatile if infuriatingly easy to unspool, more than 100 billion cassette tapes were produced worldwide in their heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s and have even enjoyed a recent retro resurgence.
Engineer Lou Ottens' interest in tech was sparked as a boy when he built a radio with a special antenna that he called the 'Germanenfilter' because it could avoid Nazi jammers
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