8 Track Cassette Adapter

The result of this chaotic rush to invent better and better recording devices was a plethora of incompatible formats. Cylinders and disks came in all different sizes, some grooves were cut vertically, others horizontally, and there was absolutely no conformity in regard to speeds. Some companies tried to accommodate the various standards by offering home players that were not tied to a particular brand of record. One example was the Deuxphone, which played both cylinder and disc records.