Mr. van Hoek told a story about the history of the eight-track tape.

Most of Norman's other customers were old enough to remember eight-track tapes.

So was a yellow plastic case he recognized as an eight-track tape.

Romano slid in an eight-track tape, of all things, and revved up the music.

Unless you count a few eight-track tapes sold in truck stops around Nashville.

Books will not go the way of eight-track tapes as long as there are still people around who were raised on them.

As he put it: "It's almost like eight-track tapes to them."

He also says the band went on tour with an eight-track tape to bolster its singing.

Like the album before it, the CD will go the way of all eight-track tapes.

But others are simply informative, like the one about preserving eight-track tapes.