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App and videogame publisher Panic somehow got ahold of these photographs of the prototype for the first iPod. And they've apparently been sitting on them for a while: "We've been waiting 20 years to share it with you," they write.
It is gigantic, compared to the production device—because this is the breadboard prototype. As Tony Fadell, "father of the iPod," explains in a Tweet:
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Incredible Shots of the Breadboard Prototype for the First iPod
I wonder if the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has one. If not they should.