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Philips introduced a mini-cassette for dictation machines in 1967, a year after it built a cassette recorder into a portable radio.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“In 1966, the cassette recorder was built into a portable radio. A year later followed the first car radio-cassette recorder combination and the mini-cassette for dictation machines.”
Soundtrack to people's lives: the Philips compact cassette, Philips Museum, n.d., Stories page: the timeline of cassette products.
Open the original- What it measures
- The mini-cassette was the dictation version of the compact cassette, which made the cassette a standard format for office dictation.
- What it does not show
- The timeline does not give the model name or the sales volume of the dictation cassette.