Magnetic tape cartridge and magnetic tape cassette both refer to a small plastic unit containing a length of magnetic tape on at least one reel.
The unit may contain a second "take-up" reel or interoperate with such a reel in an associated tape drive. At least 142 distinct types have been known to exist.
The phrase cassette tape is ambiguous in that there is no common dictionary definition so depending upon usage it has many different meanings, as for example any one the one of 106 different types of audio cassettes, video cassettes or data cassettes listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
The phrase cartridge tape is also ambiguous with 36 different types of audio, video or data cartridges listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
From time to time the terms tape cartridge and tape cassette are used to describe the same product.
Cassette tape, a two-spool tape cassette format for analog audio recording and playback and introduced in 1963 by Philips
DC-International, a format that was created by Grundig after Phillips had abandoned an earlier format that was being created alongside the Compact Cassette
8-track tape, continuous loop tape system introduced in 1964
PlayTape, a format similar to 8-track that was created by Frank Stanton
HiPac, a format created by Pioneer as an alternative to 8-track to be used outside of North America
Mini-Cassette, a small cassette tape cartridge developed by Phillips for dictation machines and data storage for the Philips P2000 home computer
Microcassette, a small cassette tape format that used the same width of magnetic tape as the Compact Cassette but in a much smaller cartridge developed by Olympus
Picocassette, a cassette tape cartridge format that was half the size of the Microcassette made by JVC
RCA tape cartridge, a cartridge tape created by RCA and introduced in 1958 meant to take the hassle of handling unruly tapes easier
Elcaset, a format introduced in 1976 by Sony based on the RCA tape cartridge that was supposed to be more convenient than its predecessor
Digital Audio Tape (DAT), a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987
Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette
NT (cassette), a small cassette tape created by Sony that was smaller than a Picocassette only used for dictation machines but had plans to be used in music
Tape drive, a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape, many of which are cassette-based
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