Originally Posted By: drakino
For $20, I can buy a new battery for the very first iPod, released in 2001, without a user removable battery. That same iPod would still attach to my 2008 computer, and work as it did in 2001.

Unless your 2008 computer is a MacBook, which doesn't have FireWire, which is the only connectivity on the 1G iPods. (I still use my 1G iPod.)
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Bitt Faulk