• Early iPhone & iPod?

    July 1, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Apple were not first......

    So you love your Apple phone and music player? Nah! These things were around donkeys years ago. The phone ran on string I think and the music player used clay disks, or something like that.

    Records ran a couple of minutes and then you flipped it over, replaced the needle, wound up the crank and the next song was played. There were lots of classics to play.

    Slim Dusty's first hit was played on a machine just like this. Title was "When the rain tumbles down in july". Don't think he wrote that when he was at Georgetown.
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