The inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, has died aged of 94. As a product development manager at Philips, the Dutch engineer also helped create the first CD.
To celebrate Ottens’ invention, we would like people to send photos of their most cherished mix tapes – and to tell us the story behind it.
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