Using open reels or cassettes, Microfilm is often used as a way to store many documents in a small space.
Mix Master Mike: he talks about how he used cassettes to practice his mixing techniques because he couldn't afford a turntable.
Higher speed machines using compact cassettes commonly use 3 ips.
A standard video cassette recorder (particularly using U-matic cassettes) used for recording digital audio with a PCM adaptor.
I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
Battery-powered tape decks that use cassettes, however, have made their way into virtually every village here.
(Old systems which used cassettes changed the pitch by altering playback speed, but none are still on the market, and their commercial use is virtually nonexistent.)
However, to achieve such compactness, Sony's design uses eight-millimeter cassettes, and there is still only a very limited repertory of prerecorded features in this format.
Virtual memory was supported on all of the machines, although using cassettes for storage made it somewhat impractical.
It used square cassettes and half-inch (1.3 cm) tape, mounted on co-axial reels, giving a recording time of one hour.