"Bill" William Lear was the designer of the Lear Jet executive airplane, inventor of the 8-track stereo, and patented several car radios (U ... William Lear William Lear invented the eight track tape.

Please send all additions, ... Answers taken directly from the pages of "8-Track Mind" are denoted by [8TM - author name] at the beginning of the answer. ... 2. WHO INVENTED THE 8-TRACK TAPE?

finally quit producing 8-track tapes about 1988. But a number of entrepreneurial souls have kept the 8-track tradition alive in the form of small production runs of independently released carts.

Invented by William Lear (he of Lear-Jet fame!) in the early 1960's. The 8 track system was a mixture of magnetic tape recording and endless loop technology which had previously existed in a simi...

William Powell Lear, the inventor of the Lear Jet, invented the 8-track tape in the 1960s. At this time there were several cartridge-based continuous loop solutions, like the 4-track, but the genius...

8-track was invented by the same person that designed the lear jet. also, minidiscs are still used for recording purposes by some people, but as a mass consumer thing yeah, totally dead in the water.

If you get nothing else out of a.c.8-t-t but the realization that there is more than one way of looking at the world, then you have gotten the point. 2. WHO INVENTED THE 8-TRACK TAPE?

This is an article about the 8-track cartridge. For eight-track multitracking, see Multitrack recording. ... Inventor George Eash, ... The Lear Jet Stereo 8 track cartridge was designed by Bill Lear in 1964. ...

William Powell Lear, founder of Learjet, invented and patented the 8-track tape and its corresponding player in 1963, when he was looking for a simple, long-playing tape system to install in the busin...

Then again, you do you trust at the end of the day: some temp blogger, or the guy who invented Crazy Frog? ... How about a combined 8-track cassette & zip disc?