MP3 Player - 10 Years Old This Month

gluteus maximus · **MP3 Player - 10 Years Old This Month -** 03-11-2008, 04:27 PM

From The Register:

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The MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998.

Read more here: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03...st_mp3_player/

Damo · 03-14-2008, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by gluteus maximus

From The Register:

Read more here: Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player | Register Hardware

Was this a solid state device or HDD, I thought Creative were the first to develope a HDD portable "jukebox".

gluteus maximus · 03-14-2008, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Damo

Was this a solid state device or HDD, I thought Creative were the first to develope a HDD portable "jukebox".

Hi Damo

From the article "The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s". The first HDD-based device is credited to HanGo (the PJB-100 in 1999), with 4.8GB of storage.

gm