Microcassette

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Microcassette

A Microcassette is significantly smaller than a Compact Cassette
Media type	Magnetic cassette tape
Encoding	Analog signal
Capacity	MC60 (30 min per side at 2.4 cm/s) MC10 MC15 MC30
Read mechanism	Tape head
Write mechanism	Magnetic recording head
Developed by	Olympus
Usage	Dictation, audio storage

The Microcassette (often written generically as microcassette) is an audio storage medium, introduced by Olympus in 1969.

It has the same width of magnetic tape as the Compact Cassette but in a cassette roughly one quarter the size. By using thinner tape and half or a quarter the tape speed, microcassettes can offer comparable recording time to the compact cassette but in a smaller package.^{[citation needed]}