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Great man he will be missed.
Nickys Nation.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...box=1615464357


[Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited
with inventing the cassette tape and
playing a major role in the development
of the first CD, has died aged 94 at his home
in the village of Duizel in North Brabant.

As product development manager
at Philips, Ottens twice revolutionised
the world of music, but he remained modest
to the end. “We were little boys who had
fun playing,” he said. “We didn’t feel like we
were doing anything big. It was a kind of sport.”

Ottens, born on 21 June 1926, showed an early
interest in engineering, building a radio
as a teenager through which he and his
parents could receive Radio Oranje
during Germany’s wartime occupation
of the Netherlands. He equipped the
device with a directional antenna that
he called a “Germanenfilter” because
it could avoid the jammers used
by the Nazi regime.]


[In 1963 the first tape was presented
to the world at an electronics fair
in Berlin with the tagline
“Smaller than a pack of cigarettes!”]