Diamond Rio PMP-300 (1998) Virtual cleaning up its droppings

cleaning up its droppings

known as the "first computer generated television host"

all while maintaining the iconic green-and-white livery

was a massive leap forward in computer history that made competing IBM PCs and Macintoshes look like ancient black-and-white relics

Diamond Rio PMP-300 (1998) Virtual cleaning up its droppingsDiamomd Rio PMP 300 First Commercially Successful MP3 Player The Diamond Rio PMP 300, released in September 1998, holds a legendary spot in tech history as the first commercially successful portable MP3 player. While it wasn't the absolute first digital player to hit store shelves, the pocket sized Rio captured the public's imaginationand the music industry's absolute furyby packing 32MB of internal flash memory into a device roughly the size of a