Museum of Old Tech

Museum-catalog dossier for the Motorola RAZR V3: the 2004 aluminum flip phone that made thinness a status signal before smartphones reset the category.

The 1984 Sony Discman made compact-disc listening portable — though its 590 g body, external battery pack, and $300 launch price made portability a very different promise.

Museum-catalog dossier for the Polaroid SX-70: the 1972 folding SLR instant camera that made the finished picture part of the gesture.

Museum-catalog dossier for the Palm Pilot: the 1996 pocket PDA that made contacts, calendars, and stylus input feel normal before smartphones absorbed the category.

Museum-catalog dossier for the Nintendo Game Boy Color (1998–2003): cover, spec table, and a backseat era-scene from circa 1999.

The beige box that tied up your phone line and took 15 minutes to download a single MP3. A 3-card museum dossier for the US Robotics Sportster 56K — V.90 standard, 56 Kbps, 1993–2005.

The all-black QWERTY brick that made corporate email a physical habit — and the smartphone Barack Obama refused to give up, even after the App Store made it obsolete.

Three billion cassettes, one format war won on shelf economics — the black polycarbonate brick that made Friday-night movie rentals a universal ritual.

The pocket-sized aluminum device that made carrying a thousand songs feel like nothing — and then vanished in 18 months.

A three-card museum dossier for the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1979): catalog cover, full spec table with 2026-equivalent pricing, and era-context scene from a late-1970s subway commute.