For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re talking about reverse engineering the Digital Compact Cassette. Why should we care about an obsolete format that was only on the market for four years?

The Digital Compact Cassette, or DCC, was one such format. Released by Philips in 1992 as a replacement for the analog audio cassette, it failed to gain traction in the market and disappeared ...

Introduced by Philips in 1965, the "Compact Cassette" offered ... many of the first personal computers allowed audio cassette recorders to function as digital storage. Never widely used, their ...

Unlike MiniDisc and Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), a competing format from Phillips and Matsushita that used the analog ...