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Originally Posted by sabredog
This is the ereader prototype from Rand, shown to CNET during the 50's. It was a tad expensive and energy consuming, but they reckoned that a home's nuclear reactor would power it quite fine....
The wheel turns pages and the printer allows instant hard copy. The banks of dials measure page ahead and word count.
They could never lick the screen glare or neck crick though....
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Well, this is a well known hoax that was wildly distributed as "popular mechanics computer vision" from 1950s
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...e_computer.htm
In fact, the above picture is a winner of a Photoshoping contest. Damn good one, I would say ...