Philadelphia woman started recording TV news onto cassette tapes in 1977 . The collection — 140,000 tapes in total — will be digitized into an online , public library . She left her collection of tapes— her `` life 's work '' — to her only son , Michael Metelits . In the 1970s, a young man named Jim Henson was working at his family's television station and he noticed that people were taping their favorite shows on tape to listen later when they wanted them.
Philadelphia woman started recording TV news onto cassette tapes in 1977 . The collection — 140,000 tapes in total — will be digitized into an online , public library . In the 1970s, a young man named Jim Henson was working at his family's television station and he noticed that people were taping their favorite shows on tape to listen later when they wanted them.