The other day, I asked one of my students if they had ever seen a cassette tape, because I was trying to explain about how magnets can erase data. She could not recall ever having seen one. And that had me thinking: We still had records when I was growing up, and 8-track tapes came out then. One of my favorite toys was called 2XL, which was a talking robot that used 8-track tapes for questions. You answered by punching a button on the body of the robot, and the tapes had little cards that went over the standard buttons. There were lots of choices, including an exercise tape!
But, even before I was in elementary school, we had cassette tapes.
In any case, today's Baby Blues Cartoon is very appropriate to this topic:
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