Noun
compact cassette (plural compact cassettes)
(sound engineering) The standard cassette tape format introduced in 1963 by Philips; an audio cassette.
Audio recording Compact Cassette main Magnetic tape was invented for recording sound by Fritz Pfleumer in 1928 in Germany, based on the invention of magnetic wire recording by Oberlin Smith in 1888 and Valdemar Poulsen in 1898. Source: Internet
Sony introduced the MiniDisc format in 1992 as an alternative to Philips DCC or Digital Compact Cassette and as a successor to the compact cassette. Source: Internet
Layer I saw limited adoption in its time, and most notably was used on Philips ' defunct Digital Compact Cassette at a bitrate of 384 kbit/s. Source: Internet