Meet the IXI (first iPod?) over 3.5 minutes of audio cica 1979

I think it’s a stretch to say this is how the iPod was invented, regardless – it’s very cool to see this sketch from 30 years ago…

Here’s the article from Dailymail…“Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, but he’s still not getting any money…” via CrunchGear.

Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod.

Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.

And the father of three is so hard up he had to sell his home last year and move his family to rented accommodation.

Now documents filed by Apple in a court case show the US firm acknowledges him as the father of the iPod… Two years ago, Mr Kramer told this newspaper how he had invented the device in 1979 – when he was just 23.

His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve.