technology MAZ on 12 Mar 2008 06:05 am
The MP3 player turns 10!!!
In March 1998 at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany the first prototype of an MP3 player was shown, changing the world of music as we know it. It later went into mass production in May launching across Europe and North America in the Summer.
“The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. It measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm. It connected to an old-style parallel port on the host PC from which songs could be copied to the player. There was a tiny LCD on the front to give an indication as to what you were listening to.”
