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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by ChuckMcM on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:48PM (#26415317)
See also JVC's "VHS" vs Sony's "BetaMax". It is the way of standards warfare.

It definitely annoyed me that media cabinets that held an even number of cassette tape drawers "across" would not fit an integral number of CD drawers.

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Re:Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died by rexpop on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:42PM (#26417422)
> It is the way of standards warfare.

Is it the way, or merely a way, and only the way so far in our brief history? I hate to see defeatism around gross inefficiencies like these.

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