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If you're a gamer of a certain age (cough), you're about to feel very old. Sony released the original PlayStation on December 3rd, 1994, and iFixit has marked the occasion by the very first, Japan-only model that never officially made it to other countries. To say it's a throwback to another era would be an understatement. It's not just the inclusion of now-quaint technology like a CD-only disc drive, a modest 32-bit MIPS CPU (the is roughly 50 times faster), an S-Video port and slots for 1MB memory cards -- the post mortem highlights a fundamentally different approach to electronics design.
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