![]() ![]() Music collectors seek eight-track tapes containing music from favorite individuals and groups such as the Beatles or Led Zeppelin. Automobile collectors who are restoring or own cars with eight-track systems seek players and tapes. Radio Shack sold 8-track tape recordings under its Realistic brand until 1990.Įight-track collecting involves a wide cross-range of collectors. Some record clubs continued to offer 8-track tapes until late 1988. In the United States, 8-track tapes were phased out by retail stores in 19. The 8-track was abandoned in some Latin American countries and Europe by the mid-1970s. The decline of the 8-track system began in the late 1970s. Ampex (Elk Grove Village, Illinois) established a European division based in London in the same year. RCA announced its Quad-8, a quadraphonic (four-channel sound) tape in 1970. Optional 8-track players were available in many cars and trucks through the early 1980s. ![]() The 8-track had the most extensive music library of all the tape systems. “Boombox” portable players were introduced. By the late 1960s, the 8-track market was the largest in consumer electronics. Home 8-track players were introduced in 1966. By 1967, Ford offered 8-track upgrades for all its models. RCA issued 175 Stereo-8 cartridges from its RCA Victor and RCA Camden labels. In September 1965, Ford Motor Company introduced factory-installed and dealer-installed eight-track tape players as options in the Mustang, Thunderbird, and Lincoln. Lear Jet produced 100 demonstration copies of the tape and player and sent them to auto company and RCA executives.Ī consortium consisting of Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records created 8-track tape technology in 1964. His design reduced the mechanical complexity of the cartridge. Richard Kraus designed a Lear Jet Stereo 8-track cartridge in 1963. He introduced his Stereo-Pak four-track cartridge stereo system tape in 1962 in Florida and California. Eash formed the Fidelipac Corporation to manufacture his tapes and recorders.Įarl “Madman” Muntz of Los Angeles saw these broadcast carts' potential for automobile music systems. ![]() Fidlpac tapes were nicknamed “carts” by DJs and radio engineers. Collins Radio Company licensed the cartridge and introduced it at the 1959 National Association of Broadcasters' annual show. George Eash invented his Fidelipac cartridge in 1953. RCA developed its Magazine Loading Tape Cartridge in 1958. Because each tape had to be dubbed from a master, reel to reel tapes were expensive. The magnetic tape reel-to-reel recorder, introduced in the late 1940s and commonplace through the 1950s, was expensive and bulky for home use. ![]()
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