Your responses are true and fun to recall. Yes, cassettes started just for dictation, then with improvements and Dolby noise reduction, as a reliable replacement for 8-Track in cars, and people could then make their of mix tapes....but everyone had records first, then taped them, sometimes for friends and then the record companies tried to stop it. Musicians were more likely to buy a reel-to-reel to record their own stuff and once the Teac 3340 simul-synch 4 channel came out to do our own multi-track recording,, even more so. Younger audiophile folks could really enjoy the video "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music". He and Les Paul deserve sainthood!
