Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
The worlds first compact cassette recorder plays a melody - some jaunty generic marching music like you'd hear at a World's Fair. Red (and blue) tapes are copies of the original demonstration cartridge that came with the Norelco CarryCorder 150. The iPod of its era, the CarryCorder opened a world of user-defined programming to the people of the 1960s. Going on fifty years later, you can still buy brand-new cassette recorders... and cassettes...
The worlds first compact cassette recorder plays a melody - some jaunty generic marching music like you'd hear at a World's Fair. Red (and blue) tapes are copies of the original demonstration cartridge that came with the Norelco CarryCorder 150. The iPod of its era, the CarryCorder opened a world of user-defined programming to the people of the 1960s. Going on fifty years later, you can still buy brand-new cassette recorders... and cassettes...
