Picocassette

Picocassette is an audio storage medium introduced by Dictaphone in collaboration with JVC in 1985.

Picocassette

Media type	Magnetic cassette tape
Encoding	Analog signal
Capacity	30 minutes
Read mechanism	Tape head
Write mechanism	Magnetic recording head
Developed by	Dictaphone and JVC
Usage	Dictation
Released	1985; 40 years ago (1985)

The Picocassette was introduced to compete with the Microcassette, introduced by Olympus, and the Mini-Cassette, by Philips.

Size

A picocassette compared to a Compact cassette

It is approximately half the size of the previous Microcassette, and was intended for highly portable dictation devices.^[1] With a tape speed of 9 mm/s, each cassette could hold up to 60 minutes of dictation,^[2] 30 minutes per side. The signal-to-noise ratio was 35 dB. The widest dimension of the picocassette was near 42 mm (1.7 in).

See also

• Microcassette
• Mini-Cassette
• Steno-Cassette
• NT (cassette)