An 80s child, I grew up during the last days of cassette tapes (the term mix-tape had to come from somewhere, it’s not just the CD you burned from your iTunes downloads). With cassette tapes, we had boomboxes. They came in all shapes and sizes, and depending on the age, they were very, very analog. [...]
Retro: Altec Lansing PowerCube Plus ACS48
Feb. 1, 2008 1 Comment
Without question, the PowerCube Plus ACS48 was one of a few product releases by Altec Lansing, Labtec and a few other companies that changed computer audio forever. Ten years ago, soundcards were starting to get better, but speaker offerings still largely consisted of two-piece, unpowered sets that sounded like cheap headphones. The PowerCube Plus ACS48, [...]
