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Incredible Shots of the Breadboard Prototype for the First iPod

"We've been waiting 20 years to share it with you"

By Rain Noe - October 28, 2021

in Tech

App and videogame publisher Panic somehow got ahold of these photographs of the prototype for the first iPod. And they've apparently been sitting on them for a while: "We've been waiting 20 years to share it with you," they write.

It is gigantic, compared to the production device—because this is the breadboard prototype. As Tony Fadell, "father of the iPod," explains in a Tweet:

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I wonder if the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has one. If not they should.

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