http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/mixtapes http://io9.com/tag/mixtapes Sandwiched between the reel-to-reel tape and the rise of the cassette as we used to know it, there was, for a brief moment in 1958, what RCA Victor called “A Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape.” Looking for all the world like a mix tape accidentally irradiated in an atomic blast, RCA’s invention “never really caught the fancy of the tape-buying public” as the New York Times delicately explained in 1964. It certainly wasn’t for lack of trying—as this clip from an RCA promotional film shows.

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5024936&view=rss&microfeed=true