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Here we have a DynaTac 8000M mobile phone, introduced in 1989 and brought in this week for . And as much as everyone wanted to own one of these back in the day it did have plenty of drawbacks like being prohibitively expensive, having a 60 minute battery life, and taking up to 10 hours to recharge that battery. And it was nicknamed The Brick Phone for a reason as it weighs 2.2lbs and (including antenna) is over 1 foot in length!

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Here we have the U-Matic BVU-110 Portable Videocassette Recorder, released in the early 80s/late 70s. The 3/4” U-Matic format was released by Sony in 1971 and was one of the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette. Originally intended for (and rejected by) the consumer market, the U-Matic format found much greater success in the television broadcast industry due to its compactness, reliability, and low cost.

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Here’s an ThinkPad Model 510Cs, first released in June 1994. This belonged to the 500 series, the first line of subnotebooks released by IBM. Featuring a 50 MHz 486 CPU, 4MB RAM, and a 200MB HDD, this had decent specs for being such a compact (10” x 7” x 2”) machine, but the tiny 7.7” display must have been tough on the eyes…anyone have a magnifying glass?

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