WORLD: Obedience was introduced Friday after Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, credited for designing the audio tape and helping create the hard disk, died at the age of 94 .
Created by Ottens while working for the electric giant Philips, cassettes made music truly portable for the first time and allowed a generation of taped music fans to mix up the most popular songs. they prefer.
Surprisingly if it is easy to move, more than 100 billion tapes were exported worldwide during the 1960s to the 1980s and there is even a recent retro revival.
“It saddened us all to hear about the passing of Lou Ottens,” Olga Coolen, director of the Philips Museum in Eindhoven, said in a statement to AFP. “Lou was an amazing man who loved technology, even as his inventions had a humble beginning.”
