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Then: In 1983, Motorola's DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) 8000X was the world's
first commercially-released mobile phone, with a price tag of $3995 equivalent to $8,772.59 in today's
dollars. Motorola spent 15 years and over $100 million developing the technology. The DynaTAC
8000X allowed 30 minutes of talk time, took 10 hours to charge, weighed 1.75 lb., and stood 13 in. high

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The television was first introduced to the American public at the 1939 World's Fair. The outbreak of
World War II delayed commercial network programming in the U.S. until the late 1940's. A popular
black-and-white model, the 1948 Admiral Model 9A111, had a 7 inch screen encased in a large metal box
four times the screen size. The 1948 Admiral Model 9A111 cost $2,495 ($22,642.49 in today's money!)
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Nolan Bushnell founded Atari in 1972, but it didn't become big in homes until 1975 when Atari
started selling home versions of Pong, a two-dimensional sports game which (sort of) simulated a game
of table tennis. Pong helped Atari become a household name and introduced very basic, at-home video
games to the masses.
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The first floppy disks were invented by IBM to store data and programs. Floppy disks came in 8 inch, 5
1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch forms and were used for data storage from the mid-1970's to the late 1990's. The
floppies held anywhere from 1.44 MB to 6MB worth of data.

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One of the earliest computers was ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first
true all-purpose electronic computer. Unveiled in 1946, it was a monstrous 30-ton machine with 6000
switches, 18,000 tubes and cabinets, and occupied an entire room.
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In 1956, Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson invented a video camera that was the first
machine to record both image and sound. The machines sold for $75,000 a piece and only sold to large
TV networks until the 80's. The first commercial color video camera to utilize a completely solid-state
image sensor called a charge-coupled-device (CCD) was developed by Sony in 1980.
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Though Steve Jobs' iPods are the most popular MP3 players around, the person most well known for
bringing MP3 players to the mainstream is Nathan Schulhof. Schulhof is often referred to as the "father
of the MP3 player industry" with the Audio Highway player. Audio Highway was the first company to
announce a portable MP3 player that let users download content. Audio Highway won an innovations
award for the Listen Up player at the CES show in January 1997. Of course the first portable audio
listening device to go mainstream was the Sony Walkman TPS-L2. The portable stereo system was first
introduced in Japan in 1979 and created a whole new category of personal, mobile music.