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Sony's PCG-505 looks like a pretty typical late-90s laptop at first glance. But it actually had a big impact on the computer industry -- you probably just didn't realize it. Sources: Sony MSX photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_HITBIT_HB-501F_(26555006901).jpg VAIO side speakers photo: https://twitter.com/froyotam/status/1345229366112915457?lang=hu PCG-505G recovery CD image: https://archive.org/details/sysrec_sony-PCG-505G "Trend-Setting Ultraportable," PC Magazine, December 1, 1998. "Mainstream Notebooks," PC Magazine, August 1999. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).
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