Ten years old: the world’s first MP3 player
Wow - that flew by - it’s ten years since the first MP3 player came onto the market. 32mb of Flash storage would have stored a small collection of songs - possibly one CD’s worth if they were encoded well, but it wasn’t much.
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My first MP3 player was an Archos 20GB monster - I waited and waited until the technology had matured (and til I could afford one!) and still think fondly of this player, which eventually found its way to eBay and some grateful blind purchaser (they were good for blind or partially sighted people because you could download ‘talking’ firmware for them. They were also good for the blind because they looked absolutely dreadful.
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