The Original iPod From 1979

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This is the sketch of Kane Kramer’s IXI prototype that he invented in 1979 — a credit card-sized music player that could have played a “whopping” 3.5 minutes of music. Apple, in its efforts to defend itself from the lawsuit filed by Burst.com, has admitted that it has in fact copied its iPod technology directly from Kramer’s device.

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