By Garland Pollard
The 1970s cassette brands Memorex and TDK are back as electronics brands.
Business Week reports that the brands have been revived by Imation (IMN), which itself was a spin-off of 3M. For the revival, Imation hired Ziba Design of Portland, Ore., to create electronics relating to audio products.
The company sells Memorex-branded iPod accessories, digital photo frames, DVD players, MP3 players, karaoke machines, and TVs at retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) and Target (TGT).
We went through and tried to recall other brands of cassettes. Happily, each of these brands is still around.
- Scotch: Yes, early on, the folks at 3M who made Scotch tape made cassettes.
- Fuji: The film company also made cassettes.
- Sony: Sony had a period where they made flavored/fruit smelling cassettes.
- BASF: The chemical company also sold cassettes; their chrome was top of the line.
- Maxell: The company had a strong audiophile audience.
- Denon, the stereo company, had a high end line in the 1980s.
- JVC also sold cassettes.
- Ampex was the original brand of tape recording equipment; Ampex advertised their Grand Master cassettes in the early 1980s as being the Tape of the Stars.
Learn more about vintage cassettes at vintagecassettes.com
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