Coca-Cola New Coke (1985-1990) Models on Display:"New Coke" Can It featured a prominent digital

It featured a prominent digital screen that showed the tape's location and highlighted "special instructions" left by the speaker

photographers had to peek through a normal glass viewfinder and keep an eye on a tiny screen on top to manage their storage

and it completely lacked electronic skip protection—the D-5's sleek design earned it the legendary nickname "Discman

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Perhaps its most famous quirk was a hidden stopwatch function

Coca-Cola New Coke (1985-1990) Models on Display:"New Coke" Can It featured a prominent digital"New Coke" New Coke, officially launched on April 23, 1985, remains the most famous cautionary tale in marketing history, representing a high stakes attempt by Coca Cola to reclaim market share from a surging Pepsi. Driven by massive corporate market research and nearly 200,000 blind taste tests that suggested consumers preferred a sweeter, smoother profile, CEO Roberto Goizueta took the radical step of discontinuing the original 99 year old formula