I still have one of the ultra-compact varieties from the '90's and about a dozen old mix tapes and maybe two or three pre-recorded cassettes, as well as a "discman" (or variant), but it's all mp3 at this point, even though I made point of buying a cassette player-recorder when I bought new stereo equipment post-divorce. (An acquaintance mocked me for that purchase, but had to retract it, having a mini-disk player-recorder in his possession, a technology that never made it. Early adopters get taken sometimes, or even more often than not: betamax, anyone?)
DAT was another one. As I recall DAT's were plagued by two problems-- record companies didn't like that it was a recordable digital medium, and the tapes themselves were expensive.
Laser disks had a brief vogue-- they were are big as LPs, and that probably doomed the format.
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