Evolution of Mp3 Player

Regency TR-1

Mar 5, 1954

This radio measured 3" x 5" x 1.25". It came out in a variety of colors The gold dial tuned the stations. It was $49.95 back in the day but it would now be $325.

Philips Compact Cassette

Mar 5, 1965

This Cassette recorded up to 45 minutes of sound.The tapes were 1/8 inch thinck. It was origninally designed to record dictations.

Sony Walkman TPS-L2

Mar 1, 1970

It size measured only slightly larger than a cassette tape itself. It operated on double A batteries. It ushered a new era of portablity.

Sony Discman D-50

Mar 1, 1984

It was introduced on the one year anniversary of compact disks

IPod Classic

Mar 3, 1998

This was the first IPod released. It had 5 to 10 gigs of space. It has 6 versions known as generations.

MPman F10

Mar 5, 1998

This was the first mp3 player of all time. It had a 32 Mb of RAM. It held around 8 average long tracks. this specific mp3 player apeared on shelves in the summer of 1998, and ran on rechargable batteries.

IPod shuffle

Jan 11, 2001

This IPod had no screen and only held 1gb of memory.

Apple IPod

Mar 5, 2001

Apple saw what other people were doing and improved there designs. They called it "1000 songs in your pocket". It did everything the other mp3 players did but had the Apple name behnd it.

IPod Nano

Sep 7, 2001

This IPod was available in black and white. And had 1, 2, or 4gb of space.

IPod mini

Jan 4, 2003

It only hold 4gb. There was many generations but was discontinued in september of 2007.

IPod Touch

Oct 23, 2004

There are 5 generations so far. But there is no doubt in my mind that they will make another one. Not only are you able to lisen to music on this device. But you can surf the internet download games to play. And the whole screen is a touch screen.