Picocassette
Picocassette is a magnetic tape cassette format from 1985 by Dictaphone in collaboration with JVC . It is about half the size of the micro cassette and was designed for particularly handy dictation machines . With a tape speed of 9 mm / s, each Picocassette could store up to 60 minutes of analog audio, 30 minutes per side. The signal-to-noise ratio was given as 35 dB . The longest dimension of the picocassette is close to 4.2 cm. It is considered to be the smallest analogue tape - sound carrier . Your later competitor, the NT cassette from Sony records digitally.
Web links
- Picture of a picocassette (with ruler and compact cassette in size comparison), at the Cassette Recorder Museum
- Techmoan : The Picocassette - Smallest Analogue Cassette Tape ever made (The smallest analogue cassette ever made)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Technology: The Tiniest Tape Ever , Time.com, May 27, 1985, accessed April 6, 2010.