Saturday December 31, 2011
iPhone 1983:
Archives Reveal Apple's Early Telephony Experiments
A peek into Stanford University's archives has revealed that Apple experimented with prototype phones as early as 1983.
The company gave its archives to Stanford in 1997 but most of the material has remained private until now.
From Mashable:
The phone was designed for Apple by Hartmut Esslinger, an influential designer who helped make the Apple IIc computer (Apple’s first “portable” computer) and later founded Frogdesign. The 1983 iPhone certainly fits in with Esslinger’s other designs for Apple. It also foreshadows the touchscreens of both the iPhone and iPad.
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